Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.