Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.