I Would That My Photographs Might Be,

My Photographs At Best Hold Only A Small Length, But Through Them I Would Suggest And Criticize And Illuminate And Try To Give Compassionate Understanding.

I Didn’t Write The Rules. Why Would I Follow Them?

I Am Constantly Torn Between The Attitude Of The Conscientious Journalist Who Is A Recorder And Interpreter Of The Facts And Of The Creative Artist Who Often Is Necessarily At Poetic Odds With The Literal Facts.

The Photographer Must Bear The Responsibility For His Work And Its Effect …[for] Photographic Journalism, Because Of Its Tremendous Audience Reached By Publications Using It, Has More Influence On Public Thinking Than Any Other Branch Of Photography.

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.