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Richard Avedon [1923-2004] American

Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".

Family, Alone, Art, Knowledge, Work

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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.		101
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.	Knowledge	102
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.	Alone, Work	103
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.		104
I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.	Art	105
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.	Family	106
Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.		107
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.		108
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.		109
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.		110
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.	Family	111
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.		112
Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.		113
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.		114
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.		115
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?		116
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.		117
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.		118
I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.		119
Faces are the ledgers of our experience.		120
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.		121
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.		122
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.		123
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.		124
Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with.		125
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.		126
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.		201

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