Words matter. These are the best Peter Lindbergh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Fashion is about change, don’t you think?
When I start thinking about a story, I don’t start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.
My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.
I’m firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.
There’s something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I’m going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.
If you’re just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can’t know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn’t think it?
I realized that I’ve worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.
I have not taken inspiration from the fashion shows. I don’t even really go to too many of the fashion shows – and have not for 15 years – because I don’t want to be inspired by the same things as everyone else. If everyone is inspired by the same things, then of course, you all do the same pictures.
Fashion photographers are the new painters.
I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.
Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they’re wearing but who they are.
You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.
You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world – whatever that means.
I was never so attracted to the glamorous world. That never impressed me.
You cannot say that one woman is ‘more beautiful’ than another, though people always do. It’s so ridiculous to say that.
These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That’s kind of strange.
A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they’re doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they’re done, the models don’t have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really.
I show elements of the set in my pictures because it’s not real. When I see movies, I often love the ‘making of’ more than the movie itself. It’s not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn’t mean much.
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
Talent is more important than nice body parts.
When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn’t exist.
Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It’s important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don’t know why.
Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What’s so special about being young? I just say that because I’m old.
With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.
