Coming Tight Was Boring To Me, Just

If It Makes You Cry, It Goes In The Show.

I Admired The Work Of Photographers Like Beaton, Penn, And Avedon As Much As I Respected The Grittier Photographers Such As Robert Frank. But In The Same Way That I Had To Find My Own Way Of Reportage, I Had To Find My Own Form Of Glamour.

When I Started To Be Published I Thought About Margaret Bourke-white And The Whole Journalistic Approach To Things. I Believed I Was Supposed To Catch Life Going By Me - That I Wasn't To Alter It Or Tamper With It - That I Was Just To Watch What Was Going On And Report It As Best I Could. This Shoot With John Was Different. I Got Involved, And I Realized That You Can't Help But Be Touched By What Goes On In Front Of You. I No Longer Believe That There Is Such A Thing As Objectivity.

I Was Out There With The White House Press Squad, And After His Helicopter Took Off, And The Carpet Rolled Up...this Wasn't A Photograph That Others Were Taking, But I Continued To Take Pictures.

When I Was Younger, I Did Things With A Camera I Would Not Do By Myself. I Remember Going Down To The Docks In San Francisco And Asking A Fisherman If He Would Take Me Out On His Boat. I Would Never Do That Without A Camera.