Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.