If You Look Very Intensely And Slowly

When I Make A Photograph I Want It To Be An Altogether New Object, Complete And Self-contained, Whose Basic Condition Is Order (unlike The World Of Events And Actions Whose Permanent Condition Is Change And Disorder).

Almost Inevitably There Are Tensions In The Picture, Tensions Between The Outside World And The Inside World. For Me, A Successful Picture Resolves These Tensions Without Eliminating Them.

As The Language Or Vocabulary Of Photography Has Been Extended, The Emphasis Of Meaning Has Shifted, Shifted From What The World Looks Like To What We Feel About The World And What We Want The World To Mean.

I May Be Wrong, But The Essential Illustrative Nature Of Most Documentary Photography, And The Worship Of The Object Per Se, In Our Best Nature Photography, Is Not Enough To Satisfy The Man Of Today, Compounded As He Is Of Christ, Freud, And Marx.

I Was Given A Small Camera As A Wedding Gift From A Very Dear Friend. My First Pictures Were Taken On My Honeymoon. As Soon As I Became Familiar With The Camera, I Was Intrigued With The Possibilities Of Expression It Offered. It Was Like A Discovery For Me.