When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of e….

For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. Th….

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality..

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after y….

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is ….

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what w….

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before..

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to ….

I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with….

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves t….

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is ver….

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature..

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is chang….

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the s….

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photo….

As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow la….

What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the ….

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving..

However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the r….

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration..