“And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.”
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In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
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I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
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