In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

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

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.