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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.
Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 1
Designer
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
New York City
New York
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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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People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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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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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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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've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.
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I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
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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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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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He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.
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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
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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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Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
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We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE
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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
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The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
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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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