Intimate Portraits Quotes

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

To be sexy, nudes need a little underwear.

I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.