A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page..

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some….

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment..

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children..

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity..

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is….

Photographing a cake can be art..

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today..

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies ….

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer..

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us..

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody min….

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel..

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes.

I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond….

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My ….

Working on photography is working on oneself..

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the pe….

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, eff….

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variab….

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger..