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Sam Haskins Quotes

1926–2009 South Africa

Samuel Joseph Haskins (11 November 1926 – 26 November 2009), was a British photographer, born and raised in South Africa. He started his career in Johannesburg and moved to London in 1968.

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I think it very important never to confuse psychology or literature with photography.

Artists don't owe the world anything, least of all explanations.

Thus my pictures are quite simple: me, thinking in images.

I always insist that art is not a competition. Critics and curators miss the fact that valid work takes place across a wide spectrum

I think of myself as a designer who uses the photographic medium and I consider the female nude figure to be a design element, capable of endless permutations.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sam Haskins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.