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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.
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I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
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There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
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If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
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What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
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There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
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I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
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As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.
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I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.
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As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.
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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
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