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I hate big models.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Models
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I don't resent anything.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Resent
Anything
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I don't know what love means.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Love Means
Mean
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Get it out of your historic head.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
Historic
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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Anybody
Influenced
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Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Best Picture
Tomorrow
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
Jupiter
Should Have
Thinking
Hit
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Alive
Artist
Disease
People
Silly
Keep People Alive
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Human Beings
Humans
People
Turns
Beings
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Human Beings
Beings
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The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Fascinating
Photography
Portraiture
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Artist
Desire
Portraits
Professionally
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The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Jobs
Photography
Thinking
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
Knows
Waiting
Dead
Wait
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Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Art
Inspirational
Smile
Black And White
Photography
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
San Francisco
Thinking
Life Best World
Francisco
San
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
Class
Students
Wastebasket
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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Drop-Out
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Drop
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Agree
Artist
Certain
Certain Things
Discuss
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None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Jobs
Faces
Portraits
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
People
Private Life
Silly
Ask
Life Me People
Discuss
Private
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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America
Artist
Photograph
Photography
Drop-Out
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
Late
People
Me People Bad
Discovered
Me Bad People
People Say
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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Jobs
Artist
People
Mind Me People
Magazine
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Men
Artist
Invited
Photograph
Photography
Ugly
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I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Believe
Individual
Views
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Artist
Doe
Criticized
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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Artist
Faces
Firsts
Sat
Photographing
Wrong Side
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Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
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Men
Puddles
Stealing
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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Artist
Couple
Darkroom
Years
Me Never Stop
Stopped
Photographing
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Art
Art School
Father
Photographer
Photography
Art Great Me
Sent
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Artist
Mind
Names
Vacant
Drop
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I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?
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Creative
Divides
Photographer
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
Hands
Thinking
Work Good Rich
Reasonably
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
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Doe
Nasty
Nice
Portraits
Torture
Fill
Several
Volumes
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Certain
Learners
Photography
Talent
Teaching
Thinking
Influencing
Little People
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So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
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Jobs
People
Portraits
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...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.
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Eye
People
Photography
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You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Book
Interesting
People
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I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
People
Photography
Thinking
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