Carol Friedman

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is…

— Carol Friedman

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…

— Carol Friedman

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…

— Carol Friedman

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are…

— Carol Friedman

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and…

— Carol Friedman

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when…

— Carol Friedman

I kind of - you learn it, you master it, and then you make sure that it just disappears. You know, like…

— Carol Friedman

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then…

— Carol Friedman

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…

— Carol Friedman

This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to…

— Carol Friedman

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the…

— Carol Friedman

We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that…

— Carol Friedman

I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you…

— Carol Friedman

I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and…

— Carol Friedman

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're…

— Carol Friedman

I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything.…

— Carol Friedman

It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness…

— Carol Friedman

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

— Carol Friedman

I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because…

— Carol Friedman

When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over…

— Carol Friedman

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can…

— Carol Friedman

A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind…

— Carol Friedman

I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.

— Carol Friedman

Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part…

— Carol Friedman

Everyone hates their picture being taken and they're nervous and they're bringing all of that. When I meet with them they realize…

— Carol Friedman