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I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.