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I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.
The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.
I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.
You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.
I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.
The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.
Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.
There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.