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I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

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I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

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My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

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You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide.

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This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me, New York is kind of shoddy and uncomfortable.

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I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

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Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

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If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

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My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

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Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: April 19th, 1928

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