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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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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"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."
"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."
"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."
"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."
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