I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."

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.

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

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

I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."