My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.
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All of the photographs of her wearing that gown, she looks like she's Cinderella going to the ball. Older women remember her fondly and younger women, I think, get a kick out of how elated she was at being the center of attention going off to the inaugural ball.
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What? They're like any holiday photographs. A bunch of people stood around squinting, and didn't realise they were that fat.
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When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years.
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The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. Well, I think my mother is attractive, but I just keep photographs of her.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs
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I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
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I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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