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Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes: If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
         

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.


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