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Helmut Newton
Total Quotes 32
I Did Find A Wonderful Girl Last Year, But The Photographs That We Did Were More About Motorcars.
Girl
Years
Lasts
You Should Feel That, Under The Right Conditions, All Women Would Be Available.
Would Be
Should
Feels
In My Vocabulary There Are Two Bad Words: Art And Good Taste.
Art
Vocabulary
Two
They Often Ask Me To Shoot For Them. But I Say No. I Think An Old Guy Like Me Ought Not Take Pages Away From Young Photographers Who Need The Exposure.
Thinking
Guy
Needs
The Photographs Don't Arouse Me. All I Can Think About Is The Hard Work It Took To Make Them.
Photography
Hard Work
Thinking
I Find Myself, After All These Years, With A Built-in Safety-brake That Stops Me From Doing Certain Things. And One Of The Reasons Why I Want To Try So Called Hard Pornography - I Don't Even Know Whether It's Hard Enough - Is To See Whether I Will Be Able To Overcome This. Because If There Is One Thing I Hate, It's Good Taste, To Me It's A Dirty Word.
Hate
Dirty
Years
In The Photographs Themselves There's A Definite Contrast Between The Figures And The Location - I Like That Kind Of California Backyard Look; Clapboard Houses, Staircases Outdoors.
California
House
Backyards
I Was Lucky To Have My Wife As The Art Director, And It Turned Out To Be Quite Something - A Great Success. I'm Very Proud Of It.
Art
Wife
Directors
I Spend A Lot Of Time Preparing. I Think A Lot About What I Want To Do. I Have Prep Books, Little Notebooks In Which I Write Everything Down Before A Sitting. Otherwise I Would Forget My Ideas.
Notebook
Writing
Thinking
I Used To Hate Doing Color. I Hated Transparency Film. The Way I Did Color Was By Not Wanting To Know What Kind Of Film Was In My Camera.
Hate
Color
Cameras
Technically, I Have Not Changed Very Much. Ask My Assistants. They'll Tell You, I Am The Easiest Photographer To Work With. I Don't Have Heavy Equipment. I Work Out Of One Bag.
Photography
Work Out
Bags
I Like Photographing The People I Love, The People I Admire, The Famous, And Especially The Infamous. My Last Infamous Subject Was The Extreme Right Wing French Politician Jean-marie Le Pen.
Wings
People
Lasts
It's Quite True That What I Am Aiming At, Even When I Take Portraits, Is To Get A Scandalous Picture. I Would Love To Be A Paparazzo.
Portraits
Scandalous
Genius And Taste Don't Go Together.
Together
Genius
Taste
The Point Of My Photography Has Always Been To Challenge Myself, To Go A Little Further Than My Germanic Discipline And Teutonic Nature Would Traditionally Permit Me To.
Photography
Discipline
Challenges
Some People`s Photography Is An Art. Mine Is Not. If They Happen To Be Exhibited In A Gallery Or A Museum, That`s Fine. But That`s Not Why I Do Them. I`m A Gun For Hire.
Photography
Art
Gun
It Began When I Was So Ill That There Was A Good Chance Of Dying. I Promised Myself That If I Survived I Would Never Again Pander To A Magazine's Requests Or Follow The Ideas Of Art Directors. I Would Only Make Images Which Were Personal, Which Arose Out Of My Own Life.
Photography
Art
Ideas
What I Find Interesting Is Working In A Society With Certain Taboos And Fashion Photography Is About That Kind Of Society. To Have Taboos, Then To Get Around Them That Is Interesting.
Photography
Fashion
Interesting
Some People's Photography Is An Art. Not Mine. Art Is A Dirty Word In Photography. All This Fine Art Crap Is Killing It Already.
Photography
Art
Dirty
...what I Try To Do Is A Good Bad Picture. I Work It Out Very Carefully, And Then I Do Something That Looks As If It Went Wrong.
Trying
Looks
Working It
I Like Photographing Women Who Appear To Know Something Of Life. I Recently Did A Session With A Great Beauty, A Movie Star In In Her Thirties. I Photographed Her Twice Within Three Weeks And The Second Time I Said: "you're Much More Beautiful Today Than You Were Three Weeks Ago." And She Replied: "but I'm Also Three Weeks Older.
Beautiful
Stars
Three
There Must Be A Certain Look Of Availability In The Women I Photograph. I Think The Woman Who Gives The Appearance Of Being Available Is Sexually Much More Exciting Than A Woman Who's Completely Distant. This Sense Of Availability I Find Erotic.
Thinking
Availability
Giving
I Have Always Avoided Photographing In The Studio. A Woman Does Not Spend Her Life Sitting Or Standing In Front Of A Seamless White Paper Background. Although It Makes My Life More Complicated, I Prefer To Take My Camera Out Into The Street... And Places That Are Out Of Bounds For Photographers Have Always Had A Special Attraction For Me.
White
Special
Cameras
Look, I'm Not An Intellectual - I Just Take Pictures.
Photography
Intellectual
Looks
Born: October 31, 1920
Died: January 23, 2004
Occupation: Photographer
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