"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

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"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."

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"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."

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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

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"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."

People

"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."

Work

"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."

Home

"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history."

History

"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."

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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

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"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

Photography

"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."

Career

"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace."

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