A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!