"George Eastman came out with his first camera, the no. 1 Kodak; it was loaded in the factory. After you exposed the roll, you sent it back to Rochester, New York. When the prints came back, they were round, because lenses don't give you an oblong image or a square image -- the lens is round, so you get a circular image. So Kodak sent you a round picture or the entire image, 3 1/2 inches in diameter. I got to thinking, 'Why can't I make a circular image on an eight by ten piece of film, using a wide-angle lens to get a round image?' I just did a series last summer in Eckley, with that eight by ten camera."

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