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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 1
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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 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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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
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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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I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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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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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
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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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One man's fantasy is another man's job.
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People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
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i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
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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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To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
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Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
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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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I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
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