Now Very Often Events Are Set Up

Something Catches Your Eye, Or Your Interest. You Attack It In Some Way Or Observe It In Some Way, And Try To Put It In Some Kind Of Form And Take A Picture. It's As Simple As That.

I'm Not A Serious Photographer Like Many Of My Contemporaries. That Is To Say, I Am Serious About Not Being Serious.

Quality Doesn't Mean Deep Blacks And Whatever Tonal Range. That's Not Quality, That's A Kind Of Quality. The Pictures Of Robert Frank Might Strike Someone As Being Sloppy-the Tone Range Isn't Right And Things Like That-but They're Far Superior To The Pictures Of Ansel Adams With Regard To Quality, Because The Quality Of Ansel Adams, If I May Say So, Is Essentially The Quality Of A Postcard. But The Quality Of Robert Frank Is A Quality That Has Something To Do With What He's Doing, What His Mind Is. It's Not Balancing Out The Sky To The Sand And So Forth. It's Got To Do With Intention.

I Am A Professional Photographer By Trade And An Amateur Photographer By Vocation.

There's No Great Mystique To Photography. A Lot Of Photographers Like To Put Their Hands Up To Their Forehead And Tell You How They've Suffered And So Forth. Well, I Just Rent A Car And Drive To The Place And Take The Pictures.