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• ‟ I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country.

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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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• ‟ Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

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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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• ‟ Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

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• ‟ I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

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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 complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.

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• ‟ Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.

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• ‟ The English are very exotic to me.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

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• ‟ Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

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• ‟ I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses, but they were actually from Flatbush, Brooklyn. They would play duchesses, and I would play Cecil Beaton.

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