My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.
He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
One man's fantasy is another man's job.
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.