My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds..

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time..

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair t….

I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never ha….

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others ….

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism..

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a colla….

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected..

I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only….

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman i….

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal..

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't..

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently..

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs..

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it..

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light h….

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is g….

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful..

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative..

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself..

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you..