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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

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The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

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I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

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There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

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I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

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Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

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My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

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Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

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Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

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The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

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And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

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I've been working with the land for most of my life walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

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And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

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