"The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography."
"It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life."
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Source: American Photo, p. 90, January/February 2000.
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