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Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

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A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

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All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.

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When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

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You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

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Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

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No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

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The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

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I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: June 30th, 1944

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