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If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
I feel really good when I haven't felt good for a long time and then suddenly I feel okay again. Nothing feels better than this.
It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation.
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.
Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.
The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.
We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.
I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.
If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.
I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.
Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.
Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.