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Themes Recur Again And Again In My Work.

It's The Hardest Thing In The World To Take The Mundane And Try To Show How Special It Is.

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.

What I Have Tried To Do Is Involve The People I Was Photographing... If They Were Willing To Give, I Was Willing To Photograph.

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.