You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.