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

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

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

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

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.