Always Quote by Terry Richardson

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium.…

— Jerzy Kosinski

I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.

— Cole Sprouse

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

— Patti Smith

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

— Judy Dater

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)

— Slim Aarons

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

— Alberto Korda

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

— Paul Kane

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

— Christian Metz

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other…

— James McGreevey

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

— Saul Leiter