Judy Dater quotes

“I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.”
-- Judy Dater

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“The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.”
-- Judy Dater

Source : Judy Dater, James Enyeart (1986). “Judy Dater, twenty years”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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“I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.”
-- Judy Dater

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“Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.”
-- Judy Dater

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“I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.”
-- Judy Dater

Source : Interview with Paul Karlstrom, www.americansuburbx.com. June 2, 2000.

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“I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.”
-- Judy Dater

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“I think when you're photographing - when anybody's photographing another person in a private situation, it's a kind of a seduction but it's not always a sexual seduction... I feel like when Jack [Welpott] was doing it, it was a sexual seduction and when I was doing it, it was more of a psychological seduction in order to get them to cooperate with me... Not because I wanted them to spread their legs or... be, you know, Wanna sleep with me? , or whatever.”
-- Judy Dater

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“Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.”

“The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.”

“I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”

“If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.”

“I'm going to have wrinkles really soon”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

“There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”