Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh is a German photographer and director...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth23 November 1944
CountryGermany
photograph relationship vehicle
For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.
photography taken expression
I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.
photography fashion falling-in-love
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography.
photography reality affair
Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.
photography art thinking
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.
photography art titles
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
photography believe inspiration
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.
inspiration way photographer
I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.
photography opportunity giving
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
concept knows nobody putting somewhere terms
To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.
column contracts expensive names nobody recognizes written
These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.
hope
There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.
defining
The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.
assisting camera great people skill taught
People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.