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“I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.”

Quote by Judy Dater

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Judy Dater, born on June 21, 1941, is an accomplished photographer known for her unique perspective and profound insights into American social culture. more

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“I think when you're photographing - when anybody's photographing another person in a private situation, it's a kind of a seduction but it's not always a sexual seduction... I feel like when Jack [Welpott] was doing it, it was a sexual seduction and when I was doing it, it was more of a psychological seduction in order to get them to cooperate with me... Not because I wanted them to spread their legs or... be, you know, Wanna sleep with me? , or whatever.”

Thinking Knows Feels Kind Persons Wanted Order Sleep Situation Legs Spread Psychological Be You Seduction

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“Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.”

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“I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.”

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“The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.”

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Book:Judy Dater, twenty years

Source: Judy Dater, twenty years

“I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.”

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“Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.”

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“A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.”

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“There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.”

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“For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.”

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“I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.”

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Book:Roy DeCarava, a retrospective

Source: Roy DeCarava, a retrospective