“I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.” LooksIdeasFashionHairDressesPhotographerDressingsDressing UpEarrings Author:Mario Testino
“The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.” IfsSidesFashionIndustryCostPhotographerCoatsObsceneFashion IndustryPhoto Shoots Author:Carine Roitfeld
“Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers have to create what they're going to photograph. We have to go into the thought and build it up, get a girl, get a guy, get a situation, get the house, get the decor. It's the meaning of the word photography: "writing with light."” WritingLightGuyGirlHouseSituationFashionPhotographyPhotographerPhotographDocumentsDecorGet A Girl Author:Mario Testino
“The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.” PeopleKnowsImportantFashionPhotographerTrendsStandpointPortraiture Author:Peter Lindbergh
“Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.” DifferentFashionEventsBenefitsDressesPhotographerOccasionsFakeDocumentsHistoricRehearsal Book:Art and Technics Source: Art and Technics
“Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.” ThinkingShouldFashionPhotographyPhotographer Author:Peter Beard
“I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it.” KnowsKindCareFashionPhotographerDon't CareI Don't CareOccupationPathetic Author:Jurgen Teller
“When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her... So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone... And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.” BelieveWellsLooksSaidWholeGirlThreeKnownFashionDecidedExcitingTownsPhotographerStudiosCuriousExcellentAgencyWell KnownModeling Author:Jurgen Teller
“I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a fashion photographer.” BodyArtistFashionPhotographerVideoInstallation Author:Spencer Tunick
“Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.” IfsKnowsAbleRememberNamesFashionStudentsPhotographerPhonesSellingFeaturesBullshitMobileStylistMobile PhonesTariffs Author:Louise Wilson
“There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.” PeopleKnowsFashionHappeningsStandingPhotographerStanding OutTentsPaparazzi Author:Roopal Patel
“There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.” EnoughFashionGeniusPhotographerBrilliantFortunatePassed AwayModellingDeceased Author:Gabriel Mann
“My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.” PeopleThinkingSpaceSuccessfulFashionIndustryCommitmentPhotographerAspirationBeing Successful Author:C. J. Wilson
“I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.” PeopleYearsWholeFashionIndustryTenPhotographerSellingDissatisfiedDisheartened Author:Giles Duley
“I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with different photographers for fashion shoots, or different art forms. You're never stuck. You're going at a different level. You're sucking in things, rather than closing. You're trying things out.” TryingArtI CanDifferentFormNextLevelsFashionOne DayPhotographerStuckClosingDifferent Levels Author:Sergei Polunin
“Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could work with amazing photographers. It just gave me a different field of work.” ImportantDifferentActingPracticeFashionFieldsSkillsCamerasPhotographer Author:Sergei Polunin
“The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.” WayStillsReasonArtistCertainHateSupportCreativeFashionAmountInvolvedIntegrityI HatePaidPhotographer Author:David Bailey
“I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting that through Patti [Smith] - because she takes pictures, performs, writes; she does so many things, and that was a big inspiration to me. It helped me realized that I'm not just a fashion photographer. I wanted to do all these other artistic things as well, and during filming my mind opened up to those possibilities.” WritingMindWellsDoeBigsInspirationWantedTogetherFilmFashionPossibilityPhotographerArtistic Author:Steven Sebring
“There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.” WorldWayIdeasDifferentSometimesTodayEnjoySimpleInterestingVisionCreativityPathSeeingShareFashionFindingsDirectPhotographerExcitedTraditionalContactMagazinesOnlineMakersNew WaysConnectingInnovativeOutletsAvenuesWorld TodayStylistUnconventionalIdeas And CreativityFashion World Author:Guinevere Van Seenus