Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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.
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
