Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.
I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.
Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.
Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
I have gradually confused photography with life.
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.
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