You Have To Devote Yourself Totally To

In Those Simpler Days, You Could Just Take Pictures Of Movie Stars And Show Them The Way They Were, As Normal Human Beings. And If I Felt Part Of Any Movement At The Time, It Was Just To Do That - To Be Journalistic And Photograph What Is, Rather Than What Is Made Up.

The Whole Point Of Taking Pictures Is So That You Don't Have To Explain Things With Words.

I'm Almost Violent About That Stuff - Electronic Manipulation Of Pictures. I Think It's An Abomination. I Reject It All. I Mean, It's Ok For Selling Corn Flakes Or Automobiles Or For Taking Pimples Out Of Elizabeth Taylor's Face, But It Undermines The Thing That Photography Is About, Which Is About Observation And Not About Manipulation Of Images.

Making Pictures Is A Very Simple Act. There Is No Great Secret In Photography...schools Are A Bunch Of Crap. You Just Need Practice And Application Of What You've Learned. My Absolute Conviction Is That If You Are Working Reasonably Well The Only Important Thing Is To Keep Shooting...it Doesn't Matter Whether You Are Making Money Or Not. Keep Working, Because As You Go Through The Process Of Working Things Begin To Happen.

The Thing Is That When You Don't Carry A Camera, That's When You See Pictures In Particular, Or At Least That's When You Think You See Pictures In Particular. When You Do Carry It, If You Do See One On The Occasion That You Do, You Can Take It.