There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.