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The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.
Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.
I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.
I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.
Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.
I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.
You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.
I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.
The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.
As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.
Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.
In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.
Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.
In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.