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Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (August 15, 1896 – October 17, 1958) was an American photographer prominent for his early use and experiments in color photography. Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of color photography, and a creator of erotic nude photographs that could not be exhibited in his lifetime.

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In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

Black And White, Color, Photography, State, Suggest, White

[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.

Appreciation, Beauty, Giving, Good, Good Man, Photograph

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty. . . absolute certainty.

Black And White, Color, Difference, Differences, Photography

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

Art, Eye, Photography, Related, Science, Tempo

If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.

Anyway, Body, Exposure, Nude, Population, Sex

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.

Business, Facts, Intriguing, Mind, Modesty, Trying

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

Coins, Fact, Lewdity, Mind, Nudity, Phrases

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.

Art, Craving, Inner, Men, Reality, Way

Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become. . . .

Alone, Civilization, Flower, People, Things

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