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Quotes by Photographer
"I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself."
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"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me."
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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."
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"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
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"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"
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"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."
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"The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned."
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"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."
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"Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates."
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"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."
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"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."
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"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."
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"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."
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"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."
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"You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper."
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"The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative."
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"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group."
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"This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous."
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"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."
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"Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do."
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"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."
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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
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"I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer."
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"I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher."
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"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."
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"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
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"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it."
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"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it."
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"What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed."
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"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
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"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
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"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
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"No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way."
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"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
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"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants."
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"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."
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"In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color."
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