A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you’re not feeling very sexy.

Margolis’s remark highlights how photographic “sexiness” is often a constructed effect rather than a simple reflection of how a subject feels in the moment. It credits the photographer’s craft—lighting, posing, lens choice, timing, and rapport—for translating an ordinary or insecure mood into an image that reads as confident and alluring. Implicitly, the quote also comments on the gap between lived experience and mediated appearance: a person may feel unglamorous, yet the final photograph can project desirability. In that sense, it both demystifies glamour (as technique) and underscores the power dynamics of image-making, where the photographer’s vision can shape public perception.