It should be all about getting onto another photograph.Īmerican Vogue, Kate Moss, NY, 2006 © Bruce Weber/Conde Nest Documentary and Short Film Projects I just think that as long as one can work and have a good time at it and at least learn something then you’re not discarding what you do. I think that a lot of people, especially people who work for fashion magazines, feel that their photographs at times are really pretty much discarded or thrown away immediately because when you work for a magazine people today really don’t save magazines like they used to. So, it’s kind of crazy, but, I can keep up with it.
Now you go away for a day and a half to do ten pages. And now – years ago when I used to have a job, I used to go away for a week to do ten pages. I like that I have more time to take my pictures. I think this year we made, like, 40 shorts. On a lot of my shootings now we also make films, because you have to do that now for magazines. And that was the fun part of it, to go into these other worlds. It wasn’t my world, but it was his world. Ralph and I had a lot of common interests – in cars, old clothes – so I was photographing his world.
When I started working for Ralph, I got to know his family and it really started with family photographs. In a sense, that’s what I was photographing – his desire, the passion he had to live like that. Like, for instance, when I first started working for Calvin Klein, Calvin was out all the time at clubs and parties, he had this really glamorous New York life. When people hire me to photograph for them, I think about the person I’m working for, not the company. But I don’t reference how other people do pictures or how they live or where they stay. I love to have a lot of photographs around me, so I have a big collection. I do look at photographs in a way of appreciation. I don’t really think about what other photographers are doing. And you have this vision image, you know. I’ve tried to show that a little bit, that fantasy world that you get from reading. I always found it great, at least for myself, in books and reading. I guess if I had to choose something that has really inspired me for my work, it is words and reading.
To do both – I think that’s the healthiest. My assistants, I buy them old cameras to take photographs with film. When I take photographs I still use film. I don’t think it’s so much about what I’m using. I would never use black and white, I would always use Kodachrome 25. I remember when I had some of it, could afford to buy the film, I just loved using it. For instance, when I first started shooting, I shot in Kodachrome 25 and it was the most gorgeous emulsion. I still shoot film and some of the emulsions in color have changed a lot. Sometimes, with black and white you can explore things a little more. L’Uomo Vogue, Kate Moss, Vietnam, 1996 © Bruce Weber/Conde Nest Bruce Weber on Style and Influences I always felt that I took pictures for somebody in my family or somebody I was in love with. I’ve always felt that photography is kind of a tool of democracy. I do feel encouraged however by anything that makes people want to go out and take pictures. I think any good photographer or director has to have that – a fantasy life other than their own. You know, my dad wasn’t a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other. I think it’s not such a good idea to be so caught up in that fame game kind of thing as a photographer because what’s wonderful is that you can go out in the world and people don’t really know you. I like to start out each day from the beginning. I end up putting those things in my films and my photographs and my books. I am someone who wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks about the things that I hope for. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself. I’ve always been shy and that’s partly why I chose a life behind the lens. Below we’ve listed 23 of our favorite quotes from the renowned portrait and fashion photographer to inspire and help take your photography to the next level. Looking for the best Bruce Weber quotes? Then you’ve come to the right place.
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