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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm good at is making art.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
- Errand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
- Empirically
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- Nov 07, 2020
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Sensual
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happened
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.
- Physical
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- Nov 07, 2020