William Klein Quotes

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.

I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

My pictures are airbrushed.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

'Sports Illustrated' does extremely minimal retouching. Other publications, however... phew. They do a lot; I've watched myself be Photoshopped before. It. Is. The. Worst.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.