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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
In some ways, there's no typical day with all the shoots and travel and projects, but I do try and stop by my studio every day.
I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.
I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.
One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.
Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.
I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.
Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.
I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.
I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.