Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.