Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedonwas an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth15 May 1923
CountryUnited States of America
Richard Avedon quotes about
giving-up soul pieces
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?
forever records height
I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.
differences people accomplishment
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
taken hands order
Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.
photography photographer made
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
photography fiction 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.
reality people photograph
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
vanity parent house
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
facts portraits opinion
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
photography running trying
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.
high-heels legs advertising
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
photography people portraits
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.
photography art children
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.
photography eye want
If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.