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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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