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There Was No Such Person As Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe Was An Invention Of Hers. A Genius Invention That She Created, Like An Author Creates A Character. She Understood Photography, And She Also Understood What Makes A Great Photograph. She Related To It As If She Were Giving A Performance. She Gave More To The Still Camera Than Any Actress-any Woman- I've Ever Photographed.

Photography Has Always Reminded Me Of The Second Child.. Trying To Prove Itself. The Fact That It Wasn't Really Considered An Art.. That It Was Considered A Craft.. Has Trapped Almost Every Serious Photographer.

It's In Trying To Direct The Traffic Between Artiface [sic] And Candor, Without Being Run Over, That I'm Confronted With The Questions About Photography That Matter Most To Me.

Sometimes I Think All My Pictures Are Just Pictures Of Me.

Start With A Style And You Are In Chains, Start With An Idea And You Are Free.