I felt the function of a photograph was to have it seen by as many people as possible and the newspaper is one of the best ways or the magazine.
Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments.
When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them.
It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.