American - Photographer | 1947 -
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
Jock Sturges
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They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
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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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There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
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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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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. I don't shoot that any more.
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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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There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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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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I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
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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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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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