I've Never Made Any Picture, Good Or

I Can’t Stand These Damn Shows On Museum Walls With Neat Little Frames, Where You Look At The Images As If They Were Pieces Of Art. I Want Them To Be Pieces Of Life!

Negatives Are The Notebooks, The Jottings, The False Starts, The Whims, The Poor Drafts, And The Good Draft But Never The Completed Version Of The Work The Print And A Proper One Is The Only Completed Photograph, Whether It Is Specifically Shaded For Reproduction, Or For A Museum Wall.

Most Photographers Seem To Operate With A Pane Of Glass Between Themselves And Their Subjects. They Just Can't Get Inside And Know The Subject.

Many Claim I Am A Photographer Of Tragedy. In The Greater Sense I Am Not, For Though I Often Photograph Where The Tragic Emotion Is Present, The Result Is Almost Invariably Affirmative.

I Was After A Set Of Pictures, So That When People Looked At Them They Would Say, ‘this Is War’-that The People Who Were In The War Would Believe That I Had Truthfully Captured What They Had Gone Through I Worked In The Framework That War Is Horrible. I Want To Carry On What I Have Tried To Do In These Pictures. War Is A Concentrated Unit In The World And These Things Are Clearly And Cleanly Seen. Things Like Race Prejudice, Poverty, Hatred And Bigotry Are Sprawling Things In Civilian Life, And Not So Easy To Define As War.