In my first years at the academy they were my most important influence. Perhaps Stephen Shore and William Eggleston were of similar importance to me there as the older documentary photographers but within color. And I still like looking at them. I think it's just a different landscape. America looks different from Europe.
Color is close to reality.
The eye sees in color. Black and white is too abstract for me. When I was eighteen I had to decide whether to become an astronomer or a photographer. He defines isolated categories for photography that sometimes cross over. For example, if medical photography is used in a journalistic way, or with the Stars, a scientific archive isn't used for scientific research but for my idea of what stars look like.