I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.