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" In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it. "
William Klein
Doing
Fashion
You
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" For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. "
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" French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style. "
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" As a kid, I wanted to be part of the Lost Generation who came to France. "
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" When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see. "
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" If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that. "
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" I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple. "
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" I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my childhood, I'd been fascinated by the way the whole country becomes polarised around this event. "
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" What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful. "
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" My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it. "
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" I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years. "
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" My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue. "
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" The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn't take ordinarily. That's the advantage of digital photography. "
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" People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed. "
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Day
King
" I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? "
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" Don't have rules, taboos, or limits. "
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" Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money. "
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" This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me, New York is kind of shoddy and uncomfortable. "
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" My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me. "
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" The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives. "
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" I was fascinated by the Black Panthers because I'd been in contact with the Nation of Islam, thanks to Muhammad Ali, and their way of talking was that the whites were the devil, and they'd get rid of them once they took over. "
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