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

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Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
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It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
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I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
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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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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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Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
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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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I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
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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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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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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
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I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
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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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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
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I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
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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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The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
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