If I Didn't Have A Camera, The

If I Were Just Curious, It Would Be Very Hard To Say To Someone, I Want To Come To Your House And Have You Talk To Me And Tell Me The Story Of Your Life. I Mean People Are Going To Say, You're Crazy. Plus They're Going To Keep Mighty Guarded. But The Camera Is A Kind Of License. A Lot Of People, They Want To Be Paid That Much Attention And That's A Reasonable Kind Of Attention To Be Paid.

Everybody Has That Thing Where They Need To Look One Way But They Come Out Looking Another Way And That's What People Observe.

Photography Was A License To Go Wherever I Wanted And To Do What I Wanted To Do.

When You're Growing Up Your Mother Says, "wear Rubbers Or You'll Catch Cold." When You Become An Adult You Discover That You Have The Right Not To Wear Rubbers And To See If You Catch Cold Or Not. It's Something Like That.

What Moves Me About...what's Called Technique...is That It Comes From Some Mysterious Deep Place. I Mean It Can Have Something To Do With The Paper And The Developer And All That Stuff, But It Comes Mostly From Some Very Deep Choices Somebody Has Made That Take A Long Time And Keep Haunting Them.