In A Photograph A Person’s Eyes Tell

It's Important To Understand It's Ok To Control The Subject. If Most Editorial Stories Were Photographed Just As They Are, Editors Would End Up Throwing Most In The Waste Basket. You Have To Work Hard At Making An Editorial Picture. You Need To Re-stage Things, Rearrange Things So That They Work For The Story, With Truth And Without Lying.

Yes, I Sold Buttons To Earn Living. But I Took Pictures To Keep On Living. Pictures Are My Life – As Necessary As Eating Or Breathing.

Another Picture I Hope To Be Remembered By Is This One Of The Drum Major Rehearsing At The University Of Michigan. It Was Early In This Morning, And I Saw A Little Boy Running After Him, All The Faculty Children In The Playing Field Ran After The Boy, And I Ran After Them. This Is A Completely Spontaneous, Unstaged Picture.

When I Have A Camera In My Hand, I Know No Fear.

All Photographers Have To Do, Is Find And Catch The Story-telling Moment.