Kate Moss
[Model, b. 1974, Croydon, England, lives in St Johns Wood, England.]
In a way, it’s like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I’m known for are not really my image, they’re always the photographer’s vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.
William Gibson
[Writer, b. 1948, Conway, South Carolina, lives in Vancouver, Canada.]
Case turned his head and looked up into Wage’s face. It was a tanned and forgettable mask. The eyes were vatgrown sea-green Nikon transplants. Wage wore a suit of gunmetal silk and a simple bracelet of platinum on either wrist.
(1984)
Margaret Bourke-White
[Photographer, b. 1904, New York, d. 1971, Darien, Connecticut.]
Of course, I am at the very core a photographer. It is my trade—and my deep joy.
Jason Salavon
[Artist, b. 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana, lives in Chicago.]
When you start to think about you’re one of six and a half billion individuals—what uniqueness means in that kind of context... This idea that one’s identity is defined by the choices they make, the car they drive, the clothes they buy, the kind of couch they have—as one of the many ways of representing one’s identity—is interesting to me.
John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
I regard myself still as an amateur, though I am no longer a dilettante.
(Introduction to The Decisive Moment, 1952)
Roy DeCarava
[Photographer, b. 1919, New York, d. 2009, Brooklyn, New York.]
... I want to show the strength, the wisdom, the dignity of the Negro people. Not the famous and well known, but the unknown and unnamed, thus revealing the roots from which spring the greatness of all human beings... I do not want a documentary or sociological statement, I want a creative expression, the kind of penetrating insight and understanding of Negroes which I believe only a Negro photographer can interpret.
Lise Sarfati
[Photographer, b. 1958, Oran, Algeria, lives in Paris.]
What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.
