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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
What I'm good at is making art.