Occupation: Photographer Birth: May 15, 1923 Death: October 1, 2004
Faces are the ledgers of our experience..
Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art..
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible..
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them..
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..
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photogra….
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the nigh….
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 ….
He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone..
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer..
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas..
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone..
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….
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….
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….
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs..