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I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

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I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

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I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

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Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

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What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

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Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

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How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: May 15th, 1923

Died: October 1st, 2004

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