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A Photographic Portrait Is A Picture Of Someone Who Knows He's Being Photographed, And What He Does With This Knowledge Is As Much A Part Of The Photograph As What He's Wearing Or How He Looks. He's Implicated In What's Happening, And He Has A Certain Real Power Over The Result.

A Portrait Photographer Depends Upon Another Person To Complete His Picture. The Subject Imagined, Which In A Sense Is Me, Must Be Discovered In Someone Else Willing To Take Part In A Fiction He Cannot Possibly Know About.

If Each Photograph Steals A Bit Of The Soul, Isn't It Possible That I Give Up Pieces Of Mine Every Time I Take A Picture?

I Can See Myself As A Very Old Man In A Terrific Wheelchair. Only, I Won't Be Photographing The Tree Outside My Window, The Way Steichen Did. I'll Be Photographing Other Old People.

I Don't Really Remember The Day When I Stood Behind My Camera With Henry Kissinger On The Other Side. I Am Sure He Doesn't Remember It Either. But This Photograph Is Here Now To Prove That No Amount Of Kindness On My Part Could Make This Photograph Mean Exactly What He.. Or Even I.. Wanted It To Mean. It's A Reminder Of The Wonder And Terror That Is A Photograph.