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In New York’s Times Square A White-clad Girl Clutches Her Purse And Skirt As An Uninhibited Sailor Plants His Lips Squarely On Hers.

I Want To Be A Mouse In A Mousehole.

It's Important To Understand It's Ok To Control The Subject. If Most Editorial Stories Were Photographed Just As They Are, Editors Would End Up Throwing Most In The Waste Basket. You Have To Work Hard At Making An Editorial Picture. You Need To Re-stage Things, Rearrange Things So That They Work For The Story, With Truth And Without Lying.

With Photography, Everything Is In The Eye And These Days I Feel Young Photographers Are Missing The Point A Bit. People Always Ask About Cameras But It Doesn't Matter What Camera You Have. You Can Have The Most Modern Camera In The World But If You Don't Have An Eye, The Camera Is Worthless. Young People Know More About Modern Cameras And Lighting Than I Do. When I Started Out In Photography I Didn't Own An Exposure Meter - I Couldn't , They Didn't Exist! I Had To Guess.

The Way I Would Describe A Pictorial Is That It Is A Picture That Makes Everybody Say ‘aaaaah,’ With Five Vowels When They See It. It Is Something You Would Like To Hang On The Wall. The French Word ‘photogenique’ Defines It Better Than Anything In English. It Is A Picture Which Must Have Quality, Drama, And It Must, In Addition, Be As Good Technically As You Can Possible Make It.