For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of my subject and then it is giving them their idealized version of themselves. — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me. — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I kind of - you learn it, you master it, and then you make sure that it just disappears. You know, like if I… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it.… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
