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Quotes by Photographer
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."
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"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."
Life,
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"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
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"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."
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"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
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"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
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"The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography."
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"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
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"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable."
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"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."
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"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part."
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"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."
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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."
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"I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position."
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"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
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"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."
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"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."
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"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
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"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
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"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
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"The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted."
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"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
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"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
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"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that."
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"Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell."
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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
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"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
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"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
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"Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it."
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"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture."
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"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
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"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."
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"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history."
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"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
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"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
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"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."
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"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
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