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believe the ocean, with its jewel like waves, is where we came from; and when I’m in the water, I feel like I’m connecting to something so mighty and so primordial it’s amazing. All the mysteries of life and death, light and darkness, space and time, are to be found there. By photographing the ocean waves I hope to reveal their secrets within.”
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Friedkin began his work on the “Gay Essay,” when he was only nineteen years of age, and set out “to depict struggles, humiliations, and triumphs ". Friedkin’s goal was to document what it meant to defy the grain when it is wrong, that is to show the courage it takes to define one’s own freedom and
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Hollywood movies create, instead showing the artifice and business behind the illusion. In a
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there. The photo essay was captured in the years of sexual revolution, around the time of the
Stonewall riots. While taking the portraits in informal settings such as hotels and bars, he often developed close relationships with his subjects. In 2014, Friedkin released
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