“Moscow dental customs, the unveiling of the harem women in Turkestan, and the disappearance of the color line throughout Soviet Asia, are the three achievements I remember best of the whole USSR.”

Recalling the aspects of Soviet life that most strongly remained in his memory · Autobiography, I Wonder as I Wander

• Memory

“A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.”

Arguing that representation becomes art through interpretation · Essay on photography, collected essays

• Art
• Beauty

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”

Celebrating humour as a source of relief and renewal · Essay on humour, collected essays

• Hope
• Joy