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- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
- The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making…
- 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…
- Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory…
- Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply…
- You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface…
- A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an…
- We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the…
- I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
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