“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”

“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience”

“Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.”

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”

“Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.”

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ”