'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.