When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don’t give a hoot in hell about it. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. And that is no mean function.

Comment on the occasion of his 90th birthday. [cited in: “Popular Photography”, May 1974, p. 14 “Through the Lens”]

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