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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.
Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 1
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How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.
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If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
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Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
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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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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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The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
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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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People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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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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He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.
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