Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.

"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.