I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.
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Ideas Images Made Thinking
I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.
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Anything Lucky Time Woman World
The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.
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Camera Photographer Prettiest Trying
You know, the Chinese don’t like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they’re right.
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Believe Chinese People Right Taken Way
Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.
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Child Fannie Innocence Models More Search Sexually
There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic?
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Beautiful Beauty Children
Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.
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Cameras Clothes Mirrors
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected.
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Beautiful Lucky Saint

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