Picture or you

"Dont talk to me about digital. I´ve got hypo in my veins. The stains you see on my shirts are dektol. I like the dark room. The radio. The yellow lights glowing. I rip the printing paper into quarters. One square is swimming in the dektol. Through the clear, brown liquid i see my work emerging -My Picture.

Then i take it. The little piece, and give it away. A gift. To the person pictured in it. A return for what ther have given me. Thirty years pass. People die. Children grow old. They keep the little piece. Stuck up on a wall with thumtacks. Creased and stained: themselves. Young and Alive. Forever. This is Photography."

Danny Lyon