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A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
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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The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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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 think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
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People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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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 am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
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One man's fantasy is another man's job.
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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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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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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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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
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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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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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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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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
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I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
Richard Avedon
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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