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But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

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But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

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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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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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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

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I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

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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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The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

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Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: November 30th, 1912

Died: March 7th, 2006

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