Fashion Photographer Famous Quotes & Sayings
32 Fashion Photographer Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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.— David Bailey

It had seemed a funny story as she told it, both that morning by the waterfall and later at dinner, when she repeated it to the photographer and the agency man and the fashion coordinator for the client. Maria tried now to put what happened in Encino into the same spirited perspective, but Ceci Delano's situation seemed not to apply. In the end it was just a New York story.— Joan Didion

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.— Lindsey Kelk

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.— Lindsey Kelk

This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.— William A. Ewing

Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.— Lindsey Kelk

When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work.— Giles Duley

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.— Carine Roitfeld

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.— Hamish Bowles

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love— Lindsey Kelk

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.— Mario Testino

I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.— Saul Leiter

That's what so many people get wrong about fashion now. It shouldn't be about the trends or the size zeros or who's using fur and who isn't; it should be about love.— Lindsey Kelk

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.— Jurgen Teller

I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.— Platon

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.— Spencer Tunick

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.— C. J. Wilson

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.— David Bailey

It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends.— Lindsey Kelk

A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.— Lindsey Kelk

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.— Gabriel Mann

Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.— Lindsey Kelk

Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.— Jerry Hall

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.— Mario Testino

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.— Giles Duley

New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.— Lindsey Kelk

A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.— Mario Testino

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.— David Bailey

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.— Peter Lindbergh

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.— Jurgen Teller

Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?— Lindsey Kelk
