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Writing is a communication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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