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----------------------------------------------------------- db: describe your style, like a good friend of your's would describe it. lr: 'I prefer beautiful things and people, I do not enjoy photographing ill people, not because I don't like them as individuals, but I think that beautiful people can give joy to everybody. this is what I want to do, give pleasure to people. when I say I only photograph beautiful people, everybody gets upset about this, but michelangelo and raffaello did this, they portrayed beautiful figures from their historical period in order to define 'beauty'. when I watch 'olympia' or look at the photos, what have I done is this: I didn’t change them, they are who they are, but I saw them from a different angle, I took my pictures from a very high or very low point of view. when I saw an athlete with a 'nervous background', I changed my position in order to eliminate everything redundant, not important. I focussed only on the subject, I enclosed it, that way everything else was blurry, and disappeared...this gave it emphasis. and I did this with people, animals, plants , this is my style...' --- quicktime clip (636 kb) please wait until film starts / back to the article