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.
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 fami… - Richard Avedon
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 fami…
- Richard Avedon
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such … - Richard Avedon
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such …
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 … - Richard Avedon
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 …
It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently. - Richard Avedon
It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. - Richard Avedon
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. - Richard Avedon
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. - Richard Avedon
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that… - Richard Avedon
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that…
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. - Richard Avedon
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
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