Occupation: Photographer Birth: October 31, 1920 Death: January 23, 2004
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain..
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapbo….
My women are always victorious..
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel ro….
You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available..
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste.
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera..
I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I pho….
There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually muc….
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person..
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..
I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at ….
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposur….
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to ge….
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 ….
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo..
I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars..
In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste..
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures..
I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try ….
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography..