On the camera as a great teacher
On where the human leaves off
On photograph as an act of love
On photographs which proceed one from the other
On the subject of poverty
On thinking “in twos”
On the "Visual Life"<
On "the words that come direct from the people"
“I don’t know…where the human leaves off and the inhuman begins…This sharp division between what is human and what is not human, I don’t quite understand….You can photograph a tree, certainly [that] isn’t photographing humanity. But you…are a human being and your understanding and…reason…are strictly human motives….If I’m dealing with a tree, or with a human being, it is an interpretation…of the world I live in.”
“Nobody ever gave me any credit for making any landscapes. Here’s a Salinas Valley farm….That’s California landscape. Sure is. Looks just like it all right. Between Monterey and Salinas, April 1939….Look at that, I did make landscapes; loads of them!”
