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“My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.”

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Eugene Richards, born on April 25, 1944, is a renowned photographer known for his profound social documentary style, capturing the true face of American society across various levels. more

“...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.”

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Author:Eugene Richards

“It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.”

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“I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.”

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Author:Bob Richardson

“Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.”

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Author:C. L. R. James

“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.”

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Author:Bob Richardson

“Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

“Women are less interested in watching two people having sex than in understanding how and what these people are feeling when they are having sex. If you kiss someone, you want to know what the other person is feeling. So I want to find pictures that express what the other feels.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

“Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

“For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves: if someone is half-naked and having self-confidence or you have the feeling that she has or he has control of the situation. She likes to do it. Then I have nothing against it. But it's true that society doesn't talk about such issues. They just talk about whether there is a breast or not, but for me it's more interesting how the power game of camera and object is shown. And if it's a cool picture.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

“Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

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