I don't try to make the first move; I always wait for them to make it. He was trying to go for my legs, and that's something I've worked on countering.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.