Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

I retired from everything except work.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.