Occupation: Photographer Birth: 1948
The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. ….
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z..
A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going ….
There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't ….
Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a….
The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful univ….
I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't c….
...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?.
It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another….