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• I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at…
• Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
• It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal…
• I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
• Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to…
• The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and…
• I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
• I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of…
• How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
• I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was…
• I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists…
• In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4…

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