I never saw an ugly thing in my life.
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me.
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.
I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's. . . ammunition.
For a time, it would work well. then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible comedowns. I understand why kids kill themselves. I absolutely do. You feel terrible. You feel soul-less. "I'll never do it to my child".
Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.
I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.