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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.
Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 1
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Fashion Photographer
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New York City
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
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A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
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I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
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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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Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
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If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
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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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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
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i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
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And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
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