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Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

— Francois Nars

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

— Helena Christensen

I had been teaching myself photography.

— Ree Drummond

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

— Ann Beattie

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

— Ren Ng

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

— Herb Ritts

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

— George Lucas

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

I would love to study photography.

— Emma Roberts

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

— Daniella Alonso

✗Opposing Perspectives

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

— Stephen Frears