- "For six decades I have concentrated on photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places", he summed it up a few years before his death.

Spectacular pools, salt-splattered linen shirts and golden-brown skin – no one has captured the dream of the jet set life as elegantly. But the story of the vulture photographer who got his own key to the celebrities' pool house reads exactly as you would have imagined, and at the same time not.
- "I believe in fairy tales", he said himself at one point.