Richard Avedon
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 2004, San Antonio, Texas.]
You can’t fuck and photograph at the same time. Taking fashion pictures of models is not a matter of arousal. It’s hard work.
Blaise Cendrars
[Writer and poet, b. 1887, Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, d. 1961, Paris.]
Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.
Subcommander Marcos (Rafael Sebastian Guillén Vicente)
[Professor and revolutionary, b. 1957, Tampico, Mexico, lives in Chiapas, Mexico.]
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
Kate Moss
[Model, b. 1974, Croydon, England, lives in St Johns Wood, England.]
In a way, it’s like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I’m known for are not really my image, they’re always the photographer’s vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.
James Dean
[Actor, b. 1931, Marion, Indiana, d. 1955, Cholame, California.]
Can’t you see? I’m Michelangelo’s David.
(Explaining his pose to photographer Roy Schatt.)
James Nachtwey
[Photographer, b. 1948, Syracuse, New York, lives in New York.]
Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?
Rosanna Arquette
[Actress, b. 1959, New York, lives in Hollywood.]
I was in Florida with Bert Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off.
Thomas Ruff
[Photographer, b. 1958, Zell, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.]
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.
