The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the ….

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But th….

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the phot….

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I wa….

i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching from the west….

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I c….

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being….

One man's fantasy is another man's job..

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own han….

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a cho….

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free..

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a ple….

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer..

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me..

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph..

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone..

Faces are the ledgers of our experience..

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas..

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read..