I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for us - there's so much for us in this country.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.