My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.
What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'
My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.
