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.
It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
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.
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.
Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments.
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.