My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself … - Harry Benson

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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Harry Benson

My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and in a strange way, if you go through violence, you come out stronger at the other end than what you went in.

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A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.

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The thing about photography is that every day is a new day, even if you are working on the same story, because every day you have got a chance to correct what you did the day before, and try to take it a bit further or a bit back.

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I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.

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John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I know it broke John's heart John wasn't happy about it and she was-- because we spoke on the plane. I photographed her and them on the plane coming over. And you know photographs don't lie. They tried putting on a black wig on her for a couple of days and that was the sad part that kept quiet because they wanted them to be like, you know, fresh- which they were

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It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

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