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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn’t have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

I had in mind a long career.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help – no matter how little – to make people aware of the human condition.

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they’re expected to be in a relationship.

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You can’t make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn’t there.

I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be ’curiosity.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn’t want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

You should never reveal your true age.

I came to photography by accident.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

It’s the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

I can’t hold a camera anymore.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?