American - Photographer | May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
Richard Avedon
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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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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The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
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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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There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.
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I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
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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.
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Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
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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.
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Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
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