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"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
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"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it."
"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
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"I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done."
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