As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was...

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was...

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without...

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without...

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

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

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

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that...

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that...

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the...

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the...

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I...

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I...

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they...

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they...

What I'm good at is making art.

What I'm good at is making art.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in...

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in...

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a...

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a...

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting...

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting...

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder,...

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder,...

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't...

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't...

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently...

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently...

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the...

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the...

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

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