The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
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I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.Gordon Parks
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
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The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.
Gordon Parks
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work.
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It's like people expect me to criticize my mother who died when I was fifteen because all I knew from her was perfection, you know
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