Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Jeanloup Sieff

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French photographer Jeanloup Sieff.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Jeanloup Sieff was a French photographer. He was born in Paris to Polish parents. He was a photography student of Gertrude Fehr. He is famous for his portraits of politicians, famous artists, landscapes, as well as for his nudes and use of wide-angle lens and visible dodging marks. He worked mainly in black and white and in fashion.

French - Photographer | November 30, 1933 - September 20, 2000

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I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

Jeanloup Sieff

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

Jeanloup Sieff

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

Jeanloup Sieff

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.

Jeanloup Sieff

If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.

Jeanloup Sieff

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.

Jeanloup Sieff

I have been searching for time past all my life.

Jeanloup Sieff

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Jeanloup Sieff

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