Judy Dater Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing. — Judy Dater

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

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

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