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 alway…

- Judy Dater

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

- 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

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…

- Judy Dater

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

- Judy Dater

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

- 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 awar…

- Judy Dater