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Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

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Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
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I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.
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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
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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.
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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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When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
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In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.
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Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.
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The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
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I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.
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What I'm good at is making art.
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There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
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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.
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I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
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