That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind..

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’….

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere nea….

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long..

Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not m….

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of phot….

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walki….

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is..

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to thi….

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style..

Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled ….

Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the s….

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whe….

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts..

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop..

Do we know what we look like? Not really..

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality..

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system..

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts..

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, li….

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air..