Richard Avedon
American · 1923–2004
Fashion and portrait photographer who brought movement and emotion to studio photography, redefining the genre across five decades at Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker.
Wikipedia ↗“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
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Interview, 1994 ↗ (1994)
“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.”
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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.”
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“I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative.”
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