“What makes us feel that we are in the presence of a unique living person? I don’t think that question can be answered in photographic terms. Indeed, the most important element of the greatest portrait photographs may have nothing to do with photography as such. It has to do with the whole of the photographer’s relationship to the world—to life. As Judith Joy Ross told me, Photography takes care of the rest.”
From People of the Twentieth Century: Group IV, Portfolio 28, Photograph 1