Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.