The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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