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The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 1
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New York City
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A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.
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i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
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I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
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I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.
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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
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One man's fantasy is another man's job.
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The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
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You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.
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Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
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Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
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I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
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People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.
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I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
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Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
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I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
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Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
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