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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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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
"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."
"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."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
"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."
"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
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