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As leader of the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, Lou Reed has been known for his bracingly honest songwriting, often veering between harsh-reality observations and soaring flights of beauty. His photography shares many of the same traits.
"As with everything else I do, my photos are about emotion," Reed says. "When a photograph works, I have a bodily response. I don't have to think about it much."
Reed, who took up photography seriously in the late 1980s, likes to shoot with Contax 35mm SLRs and wide-angle Zeiss lenses, often in his native New York City. His second photo book, Lou Reed's New York, was published by Steidl in 2006 and several exhibitions have featured his images. Here he talks about his passion for both music and photography, which he calls "part of the same thing: rhythm, light, air, movement, focus -- and more focus."
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