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Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.

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David Hurn

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

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Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

Cameras, Complexity, Photography, Reality, Surprise, Wonder

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

Extensions, Ones, Peripheral, Photographer, Timing, Two

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.

Expression, Goal, Like, Photography, Potentially, Strives

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

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The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography. . . The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

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