6 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was an American photographer. His portraits of celebrities, fashion models, politicians, and other luminaries have appeared on the covers of magazines around the world. Avedon's body of work has been celebrated in two major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art. He died in New York City in 2004.

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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 thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
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We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.-- P E R F O R M A N C E Richard Avedon
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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
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Faces are the ledgers of our experience. 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. Richard Avedon