[1906 – 1999] German-American fashion photographer
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I don’t think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.
Master Photographers – The World’s Great Photographers on their Art and Technique
Page: 113
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.
Photography Masterclass: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers [Paul Lowe] foreword by Simon Norfolk
It’s not how many or what kinds of lights you use, but how they are placed.
Popular Photography May 2009, (PDF version) p. 122
Noël Coward taught me how to relax. He told me I shouldn't worry because the subjects themselves were so frightened by the camera that they hardly saw me. That really loosened me up. But you can hide behind the camera — Clare Luce showed me that. She had been drawing on a piece of paper during our session. Afterwards I asked her what she'd been doing— and she'd drawn a sketch of me. That made me feel very selfconscious.
Lighting is more complex than one thinks. There appears to be only one source of light. But there were actually reflectors and other spotlights. I really don’t know how I did it. I would not be able to repeat it.
On his 1939 photograph "Mainbocher Corset"
