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On Photography
“As a photo-journalist, you attempt to be creative with lighting, with your subject matter, to make an appealing picture. Making pictures is an art, whether they re made to go in a magazine or newspaper or to frame and hang on a wall or in a gallery.
“You approach each picture as if you were taking it to be hung, not just to document what you see. That s the difference between taking snapshots and taking photographs. In a snapshot, you document a situation that you see. It’s like a xerox. With a photograph, you move around and find the best lighting. You shoot the subject matter in such a way that it has meaning. It’s not just a copy.
“It’s not at all unusual for me to spend two weeks on a single photograph. I was assigned to take the pyramids for a Life book on religions. I spent eight or nine days. I hired the camel drivers and the animals and we went out. They posed in the foreground. The first six days, I got nothing. I just documented what was there. Then late one afternoon, there was this golden, brilliant sunlight that gave a crosslit effect. One of the men and his camel moved, completely by accident, to the perfect spot to get depth. That was it! Everything fell into the right place at the right time and I got it on film and it was fine!
“But the length of time you spend on a photograph is not what’s important. It’s knowing, having some idea of what you want to create and then recognizing it when you’ve got it.
“Anyone can take a picture. It’s the easiest trick in the world. A lot of so-called art photography is more salesmanship than art. A meaningful picture is one that says something about a person or a moment or gives you information. For a photograph to be good, it must make some kind of statement, convey some sort of feeling.”
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