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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 16th, 1933

Died: December 28th, 2004

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