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 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.

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

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

Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

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