The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.
Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.
I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
In L. A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.
I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode. . . A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring even to the stranger. . . Well put together scrapbooks and photo albums have warmed more hearts than any bound book. . . Without a good scrapbook, much that's memorable in life is forgotten or damaged or lost.
A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's a kind of suggestion of where you might look for that thing.
One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.
Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare!
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
You could start a small fire. . . with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.
I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?
Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
The photo is the most important thing.