Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras Ð anything photographic Ð I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest Ð or without.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.