I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photos at home. In 'Happier at Home,' I write about my 'shrine to my family' made of photographs.
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.
Your library is your portrait.
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.