The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

What I'm good at is making art.

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

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

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