Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
Photography is truth.
In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology.
I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Photography is Art and Art is Photography.
Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of.
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
A photograph can look any way.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.
Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
