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
adorable album children ends family good guy next pictures screaming
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.
face work
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.
photography people portraits
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
photography wake-up essentials
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.
inspirational photography cameras
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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?
photography doctors people
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.
running ambition people
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
portraits knows
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
photography facts opinion
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
freedom ideas style
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
photography art thinking
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
thinking sometimes predicaments
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
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.