A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.