Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.