It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.
A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.
I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
