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Helmut Newton

"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

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Akiroq Brost

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

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Akiroq Brost

"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

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Akiroq Brost

"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."

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Akiroq Brost

"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."

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Akiroq Brost

"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."

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Akiroq Brost

"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"

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Akiroq Brost

"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."

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Helmut Newton
"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris."

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Helmut Newton
"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."

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Helmut Newton
"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."

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Helmut Newton
"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."

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Helmut Newton
"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."

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Helmut Newton
"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen."

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Helmut Newton
"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it."

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Helmut Newton
"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."

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Helmut Newton
"Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag."

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Helmut Newton
"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."

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