“The ideas for my photographs come from things that I see, from a preconscious kind of seeing, and then I go back and try to assemble what l’ve seen. But whenever I try to come up with the image completely from inside myself, it never seems to work. It always needs to be triggered by something that I see. There is a sort of marriage between intellect and human response.” James Sandall, Interview by Lou Hillman, Agenda, October 1997
“What bothers me most about Ann Arbor – and l’ve lived here over 30 years – is that you meet people who are very intelligent; they know the names of all the artists; they know their backgrounds and they’ll get into a big discussion with you. Then you go to their house and they have pussy cats framed on the walls.” Barry Avedon, Interview by Lou Hillman, Agenda, October 1997