There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.