Quotes by Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Knows

Portraits

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s 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. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Photography

Portraits

Real

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.

Facts

Photography

Portraits

A portrait isn’t a fact but an opinion – an occasion rather than a truth.

Facts

Opinion

Portraits

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

Fiction

Photography

Portraits

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Cameras

Inspirational

Photography

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Essentials

Photography

Wake Up

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Art

Levels

Photographer

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.

Lying

Mean

Writing

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

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Quotes by Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s 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. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

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.

A portrait isn’t a fact but an opinion – an occasion rather than a truth.

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

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