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People In Millenniums Ahead Will Know What We Were Like In The 1930's And The Thing That, The Important Major Things That Shaped Our History At That Time. This Is As Important For Historic Reasons As Any Other.

Washington, D.c. In 1942 Was Not The Easiest Place In The World For A Negro To Get Along.

I Was There Less Than A Year Before I Was Assigned To The Paris Bureau. I Spent Two Years There And, In Fact, Before I Even Went On The Staff I Was Sent To Europe To Do Assignments Which They Wouldn't Normally Do For A Young Photographer Just Starting Out.

Success Can Be Wracking And Reproachful, To You And Those Close To You. It Can Entangle You With Legends That Are Consuming And All But Impossible To Live Up To.

So I Went To Chicago In 1940, I Think, '41, And The Photographs That I Made There, Aside From Fashion, Were Things That I Was Trying To Express In A Social Conscious Way.