I See Pictures Of Myself And I

People, Unprotected By Their Roles, Become Isolated In Beauty And Intellect And Illness And Confusion.

We All Perform. It's What We Do For Each Other All The Time, Deliberately Or Unintionally. It's A Way Of Telling About Ourselves In The Hope Of Being Recognized As What We'd Like To Be.--performance

My Photographs Don't Go Below The Surface. They Don't Go Below Anything. They're Readings Of The Surface. I Have Great Faith In Surfaces. A Good One Is Full Of Clues. But Whenever I Become Absorbed In The Beauty Of A Face, In The Excellence Of A Single Feature, I Feel I've Lost What's Really There Been Seduced By Someone Else's Standard Of Beauty Or By The Sitter's Own Idea Of The Best In Him. That's Not Usually The Best. So Each Sitting Becomes A Contest.

Start With A Style And You Are In Chains, Start With An Idea And You Are Free.

I Know That The Accident Of My Being A Photographer Has Made My Life Possible.