What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Photographing a cake can be art.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes