Occupation: Photographer Birth: June 12, 1933 Death: September 18, 2004
I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was com….
I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power..
The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera..
Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can wri….
I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summa….
All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name..
Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right..
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only ha….
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture..