24 Peter Lindbergh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Peter Lindbergh

German Photographer

Born: Nov 23, 1944

Fashion Me People Photography Woman You

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Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. Peter Lindbergh

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There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope. Peter Lindbergh

Hope Woman Old Before Young Else Out Find Something Something Else Beyond Makes Die Going Being Interesting

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

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For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is. Peter Lindbergh

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I have not taken inspiration from the fashion shows. I don't even really go to too many of the fashion shows - and have not for 15 years - because I don't want to be inspired by the same things as everyone else. If everyone is inspired by the same things, then of course, you all do the same pictures. Peter Lindbergh

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People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway. Peter Lindbergh

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Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century. Peter Lindbergh

Women Beginning Tool Heartless Represent In The Beginning Century Should Chosen

My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough. Peter Lindbergh

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A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they're doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they're done, the models don't have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really. Peter Lindbergh

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I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much. Peter Lindbergh

I don't retouch anything. Peter Lindbergh

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My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when I got my first camera. Children have something totally unconscious about them. That's how I learned. Peter Lindbergh

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I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years. Peter Lindbergh

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You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them. Peter Lindbergh

You Hate People Photographers Pictures Like Know Either Them

I wouldn't have lasted two minutes as a designer. Peter Lindbergh

Lasted Minutes Designer Two

I was never so attracted to the glamorous world. That never impressed me. Peter Lindbergh

Me World Glamorous Never Attracted Impressed

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist. Peter Lindbergh

Art Photography Thomas Like Exist Started

I thought fashion was just the pretext to do images with lots of freedom and get them published in magazines. You could express your point of view, make statements about women and about what you believe in. Peter Lindbergh

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When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about. Peter Lindbergh

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The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult. Peter Lindbergh

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Talent is more important than nice body parts. Peter Lindbergh

Important Nice More Talent Parts Than Body

I don't feel like a fashion person. I don't even have a little earring somewhere. Peter Lindbergh

Fashion Somewhere Earring Feel Like Person Little Even

I go out very rarely in Paris. If it's a fashion party at a nightclub, I wouldn't dream to go. People come to you for your work, not because you go to all their parties. Peter Lindbergh

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