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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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I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
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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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Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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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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It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
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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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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 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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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 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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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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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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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
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What I'm good at is making art.
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