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" I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger. "

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" I'm an outsider, I guess. "

" When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn't really adore me. "

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