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I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?

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Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

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French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

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I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

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I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.

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Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

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I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.

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I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

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I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

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I like film. I'm old fashioned.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: April 19th, 1928

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