Most Photographs, To Me, Are

I Still Find Doing Portraits A Terrific Challenge, But Even Though I've Done Hundreds Of Them, I've Never Stopped Questioning The Very Nature Of Portraiture Because It Deals Exclusively With Appearances. I've Never Believed People Are What They Look Like And Think It's Impossible To Really Know What People Are.

The Question Of Truth Is Forever In The Air, And People Look For It With Particular Fervor In Art.

A Photograph Of A Woman Crying Tells Me Nothing About Grief. Or A Photograph Of A Woman Ecstatic Tells Me Nothing About Ecstasy. What Is The Nature Of These Emotions? The Problem With Photography Is That It Only Deals With Appearances.

I Think That The Photographer Must Completely Control His Picture And Bring To It All His Personality, And In This Area Most Photographs Never Transcend Being Just Snapshots. When A Great Photographer Does Infuse The Snapshot With His Personality And Vision, It Can Be Transformed Into Something Truly Moving And Beautiful.

Most Photographs, To Me, Are Description, But They Lack Insight.