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"Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."

"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."

"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."

"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is."

"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy."
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