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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

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If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

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The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

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Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

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My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

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Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

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I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

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I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: May 15th, 1923

Died: October 1st, 2004

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