Artists are a combination of loneliness and carnival, surrounded by "genius" and "eccentric" at the same time. I especially like Joel's definition of a street photographer: "Street photographers tend to be gregarious in the sense that they can go out on the street and they are comfortable being among people. But they are also a funny mixture of solitaries at the same time as being gregarious. You observe, embrace and take in, but you stay back and try to stay invisible.” For Vivian, his interpretation is always incisive: “As she was photographing, she was seeing just how close you can come into somebody's space and make a picture of them. This tells me a lot about her. It tells me that she could go into a space with a total stranger and get them to accommodate her by being themselves and generate this kind of moment where two presences were actually kind of vibrating together. And then she is gone.”
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