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.
BERT STERNThe photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.
More Bert Stern Quotes
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There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic?
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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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The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.
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I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected.
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Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.
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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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I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.
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