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"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."
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