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Life Through My Lens From World Renowned Photographer Timothy White · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I really do laugh when people say you talk to everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Is there somebody that you haven't included on that list?
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why I do this is because isn't
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  Speaker 1: that how we live our lifestyle? There are so many choices.
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  Speaker 1: Watch what you do at night with Netflix, Hulu and
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  Speaker 1: everything else that you're streaming. You are there for two
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  Speaker 1: seconds and gone, So should the conversations Aero dot net
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  Speaker 1: a R. R Oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration, Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you something. This is quite the
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  Speaker 1: experience what you're sharing with the world these days, and
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  Speaker 1: it took an entire lifetime to get here. It just
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  Speaker 1: amazes me how what you see through that lens generates
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  Speaker 1: motivation and photographs inside our imagination. That's an art, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: To be in that moment because I've written so much
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  Speaker 1: about you. And the reason why is because you are
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  Speaker 1: a believer in continuation, that you are at the center
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  Speaker 1: of that origin and somehow, some way, through your imagination
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  Speaker 1: and instinct, you're giving us something to hold on to forever.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just so fascinated and inspired by people like yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, you know life is made up of moments, and
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  Speaker 3: none of those are ours to keep.
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  Speaker 2: But true photography we get to keep those moments and
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  Speaker 2: share them.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you do during those moments when your
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  Speaker 1: inner eye says, I've got this shot. But yet it
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  Speaker 1: was the shots two or three before that that became
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  Speaker 1: the one we get to see.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's you know, there's the decisive moment, you know
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  Speaker 3: that you push the shutter, But the context changes all
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  Speaker 3: the time too. Pictures that I've photographed and follow were
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  Speaker 3: the one you know, back whenever a week ago, a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, ten years ago more means something different than
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  Speaker 3: it does today.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course people change and that changes the.
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  Speaker 3: Text as well as they get older or you know,
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  Speaker 3: their careers change, or you know, people you know live and.
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  Speaker 2: Die as well. Through that the process of building this archive.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a it's.
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  Speaker 3: An interesting dynamic to have sort of documented pop culture history.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that I'm seeing and feeling and oh
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of emotions inside these pages, and that
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  Speaker 1: is inside the book life. Through my lens, I see
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  Speaker 1: the real person that you're that you're snapping a shot up.
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  Speaker 1: We all know of the persona or the aura that
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  Speaker 1: that everybody else has been writing about. But somehow, some way,
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  Speaker 1: you're able to give me an authentic heart sitting right
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  Speaker 1: there in front of me in that photograph.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it has less to do with the
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  Speaker 3: process or the camera or the lighting as it does
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  Speaker 3: to do with my version of them that I see,
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  Speaker 3: and and that comes with the experience that I'm sharing
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  Speaker 3: with them, and out of that and trying to make
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  Speaker 3: that connection, I find that decisive moment to push the shutter,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the one that works.
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  Speaker 1: Do you shoot for those moments that I call raw?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, it's like, oh, this is it? You
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  Speaker 1: look for that moment that God, it's almost like a character,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not because it's so real.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not really sure when I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 3: I have a big bag of tricks, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I compose and it's lit a certain way, and then
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  Speaker 3: I let the magic happen. And that magic is usually
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  Speaker 3: an interaction between my subject and myself.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, again, there's many variations.
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  Speaker 3: It could be the shot before I push the shutter,
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  Speaker 3: could well I chose actually, or the one after and
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  Speaker 3: both can be valid. All can be valid, but at
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  Speaker 3: some point you make decisions, and this is the one,
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  Speaker 3: This is the one that I felt, this is the
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  Speaker 3: one that definitively, definitively defines that person.
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  Speaker 1: For me, this book is more than just for Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: people or musician fans or even those that are very
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  Speaker 1: good with their cameras. Lens Through, I mean, Life through
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  Speaker 1: My Lens is one of those books that can be
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  Speaker 1: loved and cherished by everyone. Because we all take selfies,
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  Speaker 1: we all take photographs. But the one thing that you
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  Speaker 1: share in this book that just I swear to God,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to change me. Understanding memory, mortality, and human connection.
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  Speaker 1: Those three things inside one photograph make me go, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god. It is that moment you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, well that's really great insight. I'm really I'm really pleased.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's just seeing it. Yeah, you know, and it
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  Speaker 3: applies to almost everything in my life. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't really treat my career differently than
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  Speaker 3: my than just it's all my life experience, and so
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  Speaker 3: it's all about relationships and whether it's my parents or
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  Speaker 3: my friends or people that have passed in my life,
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  Speaker 3: we're just the people that pass in front of my camera.
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  Speaker 2: Every day. That's sort of the same same connection.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. We're coming right back with photographer Timothy
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  Speaker 1: White coming up next. The name of his book, and
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  Speaker 1: he does say it's personal, and it is and it
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  Speaker 1: will become very personal to you as well. Life through
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  Speaker 1: my lens from Timothy White. Is it kind of weird though,
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  Speaker 1: that when you do have a person of fame somewhere
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  Speaker 1: near you, it's it's like, in reality, your your heart
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  Speaker 1: is just saying, it's just another person. They put their
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  Speaker 1: pants on the same way I do. I'm here for
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  Speaker 1: some shots. We're going to capture a moment because it's
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  Speaker 1: like how we've all been there. We've been to those
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  Speaker 1: moments where people can't keep their cool, but yet what
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  Speaker 1: you do, it's like he's got it. He's got this
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  Speaker 1: coolness about him that makes him one of them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's always true, but yeah, to some degree.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I walk in the room and to your
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  Speaker 3: point where you know, we're all the same, We're all
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  Speaker 3: the same people. But with that said, I am really
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  Speaker 3: inspired and impressed with the people that I work with,
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  Speaker 3: and that inspiration allows for me to bring out the
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  Speaker 3: best in me and my work as well. And so
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  Speaker 3: it becomes this collaborative moment for both of us to
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  Speaker 3: sort of capture their image.
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  Speaker 1: To be a part of this book. Does it feel
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  Speaker 1: like being in a gallery because now everybody has a
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  Speaker 1: ticket to come to your show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean this book is very personal and very
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  Speaker 3: vulnerable too, So yeah, they're a part of my show
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  Speaker 3: to some degree. It's certainly reflective of the color of
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  Speaker 3: my career and the people that are a part.
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  Speaker 2: Of that career.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also a very personal book where I kind
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  Speaker 3: of really expose, well, pardon the pun, exposed myself in
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  Speaker 3: a way that's different.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that I feel, and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: think I'm a quack here, but why is it when
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  Speaker 1: I look into your photographs, I really feel like things
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  Speaker 1: are moving. It's almost like, sure, you've got this snapshot,
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  Speaker 1: but my imagination is moving those photographs. It's almost like
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  Speaker 1: I can see something beyond those photographs. And it starts
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  Speaker 1: with your lens. Dude.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I love that.
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  Speaker 3: The truth is, you know, it is a still photograph,
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  Speaker 3: of course, but and it's also my pictures are often
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  Speaker 3: posed and certainly controlled.
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  Speaker 2: So I love the fact that you feel some energy.
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  Speaker 3: That's some kinetic energy that's going on in the photograph
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  Speaker 3: despite its stillness.
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  Speaker 1: What would you be doing if you did not have
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  Speaker 1: that lens? Would you be doing radio where you play
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  Speaker 1: around with the theater of the mind.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've always saw myself as a storyteller, and
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  Speaker 3: it's certainly connected for me as a visual storyteller. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, even just writing this book is making me
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  Speaker 3: feel that I have other ways to express myself. And
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  Speaker 3: so I don't know what's next, but who knows, maybe
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  Speaker 3: another book.
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  Speaker 1: See. I laugh when I hear when I write this
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  Speaker 1: book because I'm sorry, I'm such a writer that when
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  Speaker 1: I hear other people talk about writing, it just brings
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  Speaker 1: out the giddiness inside of me. It's just I just
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  Speaker 1: get so giddy because there is there's a journey, and
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  Speaker 1: I wish more people were writers. And just the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you just went through through this experience inspires the
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  Speaker 1: crap out of me, dude, because you wrote a book.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody does that as often as what we should be doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, it was something I felt I
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  Speaker 3: needed to do, but damn it was intimidating. And then
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  Speaker 3: of course, and then of course to put it out
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  Speaker 3: that's a whole nother thing. It is one thing, but
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  Speaker 3: then to put it out to the public, especially when
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  Speaker 3: it's so personal as another.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you?
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  Speaker 1: Because ten minutes with you is never enough, and I
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  Speaker 1: want them to really dive into the depth of what
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  Speaker 1: you present to the world, because I think it should
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  Speaker 1: be at the Getty and I know it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be there one day and I'll be the first in
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  Speaker 1: line to buy tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's you're You're amazing.
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  Speaker 3: You can give them my own phone number thing and
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  Speaker 3: call me whenever you can this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But now the book is you know, the book is
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  Speaker 2: very telling. You learn a lot about me. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's a booksellers all over the place. It's on my website,
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  Speaker 3: Timothy White dot com. It said Amazon, it said Barnes
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  Speaker 3: and Nobles. It's in booksellers everywhere, So pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, dude, come back to this show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today, Okay, Timothy, thank you sir.