People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.