Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.
When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
