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- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like film. I'm old fashioned.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come in close and also make a commentary on what's being photographed: 'This is a photo, this is my point of view.'
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the great national event.
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- Nov 07, 2020