I Am Always Stimulated By People. Almost

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Marilyn Monroe Gave More To The Still Camera Than Any Actress, Any Woman I've Ever Photographed; Infinitely More Patient, More Demanding Of Herself And More Comfortable In Front Of The Camera Than Away From It.

Real People Move, They Bear With Them The Element Of Time. It Is This Fourth Dimension Of People That I Try To Capture In A Photograph.

I Hate Cameras. They Interfere, They’re Always In The Way. I Wish: If I Could Just Work With My Eyes Alone. To Get A Satisfactory Print, One That Contains All That You Intended, Is Very Often More Difficult And Dangerous Than The Sitting Itself. When I’m Photographing, I Immediately Know When I’ve Got The Image I Really Want. But To Get The Image Out Of The Camera And Into The Open, Is Another Matter.

My Photographs Don't Go Below The Surface. They Don't Go Below Anything. They're Readings Of The Surface. I Have Great Faith In Surfaces. A Good One Is Full Of Clues. But Whenever I Become Absorbed In The Beauty Of A Face, In The Excellence Of A Single Feature, I Feel I've Lost What's Really There Been Seduced By Someone Else's Standard Of Beauty Or By The Sitter's Own Idea Of The Best In Him. That's Not Usually The Best. So Each Sitting Becomes A Contest.