A Picture Is The Expression Of An

The Camera Only Facilitates The Taking. The Photographer Must Do The Giving In Order To Transform And Transcend Ordinary Reality. The Problem Is To Transform Without Deforming. He Must Gain Intensity In Form And Content By Bringing A Subjective Order Into An Objective Chaos.

A Few Words About The Question Of Whether Photography Is Art Or Not: I Never Understood The Question.

There Are Two Kinds Of Photographers: Those Who Compose Pictures And Those Who Take Them. The Former Work In Studios. For The Latter, The Studio Is The World... For Them, The Ordinary Doesn't Exist: Every Thing In Life Is A Source Of Nourishment.

Beware Of Color Theories. Theories In Color Photography Are Dangerous. The Plain Fact That There Are So Many Of Them Proves My Point.

All I Wanted Was To Connect My Moods With Those Of Paris. Beauty Pains And When It Pained Most, I Shot.