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.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.