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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon
American Photographer
Born: May 15, 1923
Died: Oct 1, 2004
About Always Man People Work You
Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Berenice Abbott Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Richard Avedon
People Power Ambition Locked Hiding Running Within Unhappiness Reputations Beliefs
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. Richard Avedon
Good Family You Man Hate People Seen Torn Minute Guy Adorable Never Pictures Like Look Because How Up Family Man Screaming Ends Where Children Them Next Your Many Good Family Album Good Guy
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. Richard Avedon
Knowledge Picture Photograph Photographed Photographic Wearing Someone He Part Looks Knows Does How Being Much Who Portrait
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. Richard Avedon
Me Sometimes Think Pictures Just
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. Richard Avedon
Time You Lie Ugly Word Made Lying Say Photographers Lies About Something Write Instead Picks Because Does Camera Same Any Artist Want Mean Choice Choose Chooses Moment Paint Larger
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. Richard Avedon
Work You Words Listening Face Controlling Other Say Concentrated Know Smiling Click Camera Very Going In Other Words Next Your Now Things Bring Position
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. Richard Avedon
Me People Photograph About More Than Portraits
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
Myself Feeling See Guy Knew Pictures Like Look Always
Faces are the ledgers of our experience. Richard Avedon
Experience Our Faces
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. Richard Avedon
People Never Almost Ideas Always Am Stimulated
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? Richard Avedon
Time Soul Picture Every Every Time Mine Bit Possible Photograph Give Steals Take Pieces Up Each
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Richard Avedon
Parents Before Crib Saw Vanity Vanity Fair Vogue Could Put New Fair House Read Around Yorker New Yorker
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Richard Avedon
People Confusion Beauty Become Unprotected Isolated Intellect Roles Illness
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. Richard Avedon
Photographer Never Artist Wanted
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. Richard Avedon
Photograph Fact Emotion Longer Opinion Transformed Moment

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