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I Think All Art Is About Control, The Encounter Between Control And Uncontrollable.

And If A Day Goes By Without My Doing Something Related To Photography, It's As Though I've Neglected Something Essential To My Existence, As Though I Had Forgotten To Wake Up. I Know That The Accident Of My Being A Photographer Has Made My Life Possible.

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.

The Moment An Emotion Or Fact Is Transformed Into A Photograph It Is No Longer A Fact But An Opinion.

My Parents Put The New Yorker In My Crib. I Saw Vogue And Vanity Fair Around The House Before I Could Read.