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Diana testino
Diana testino







And I guess that some people would think that it doesn't do a lot for me because I am giving the picture to (the model) really. For their taste, their ideas, their humor, their personality in general.

diana testino

When I photograph, I'm really into the girl, you know, what the girl brings to the table, not just for their outside aesthetics. So unless I enjoy this person that I am photographing, my life can be pretty boring if I treat them just like a blank canvas. I realized a long time ago that a part of my life is my work and it's the biggest part of my life. They want them to be a blank canvas that you go and paint with. Some photographers treat models like models and they don't want to know anything about them. Testino: I get really obsessed with the person I am photographing. I think you can feel so many things.ĬNN: How do you build a relationship with the subjects you are photographing? Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Testino: A photograph can make you feel so many different things.

diana testino

If you look at the description of photography it means "writing with light," so I guess it's a combination of capturing a moment at the right speed at the right composition - different elements come into it.ĬNN: On an emotional level, what can a photograph make you feel? This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it. My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didn't exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. In fine art you see this in a different way because usually what you see isn't always what (the photographer) is trying to say.

diana testino

Photography conveys either a moment or emotion - it documents something. Testino: It depends what sort of photography you are talking about.









Diana testino