I’m just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they’re always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.
It’s amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do… inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
Most of my friends are in the industry – photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.
There are photographers who don’t really engage with their subject. It’s a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with it. It works but I think it ultimately limits how profound the work can be.
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
We’re never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don’t go to places where there are photographers hanging out.
You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.
I’m self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn’t figure out from the manual or online.
On a typical day, walking down the street, there are a couple of photographers and then there get to be more and more. It’s the most awkward thing, because you have to pretend that they’re not there and it drives you nuts.
My phone and email have been hacked, I’ve been arrested by the police and followed by the pro-China people or the photographers from the pro-China newspapers.
Of course I don’t like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.
It’s not my favorite thing, photographers on the street, they are not always very nice to you. But, you just keep on walking.
I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
OK, I don’t love the red carpet… You arrive and all the photographers are shouting at you ‘Smile!’ I’m like: what, you want me to lift my leg and twirl? No.
For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.
I’ve been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I’d grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It’s the greatest taboo subject of all.
I prefer to be at home with my husband and children than attacked by photographers.
If somebody were to feel the necessity to reduce themselves to a desperate state to achieve what they perceive to be their goals in life, people who work in fashion, who are models or photographers, shouldn’t be judged because of untoward acts of others. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.
A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can’t reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, ‘The Balenciaga.’ And I go to the shows. I feel like it’s my business.
I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there’s all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you’re like, ‘Man, I want to create that!’ I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it’s very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it’s pretty much trivialized.
France has always had a special place for Apple. This is the best place to discover and chat with all musicians, graphic designers, designers, or photographers who use our products. There is such creative energy.
Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there’s this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.
I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There’s not much more to ask for but I’m still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
What’s really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own.
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father’s support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
While in Paris, I got into modeling – photographers would literally stop me on the street.
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’ve learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.
Tanushree taught me how to do make-up when I didn’t even know how to hold a brush, She encouraged me to go to acting school when I was not confident about my personality and acting. She even got my pictures done by the best photographers in town. She motivated me to do my best.
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases – but bland girls don’t influence me. I don’t like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
I love Steven Meisel and David Sims’ work, I think they’re both amazing photographers. I want to be at the same level as them one day.
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I’d practice in front of the mirror and I’d ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I’m pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They’re kind of like nuns of fashion.
I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I’ve been able to maintain that. I’m a totally normal person, I don’t get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.
I’m happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capture smile moments and would encourage aspiring photographers to express themselves through their photos.
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