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
confusion people roles
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
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.
ideas people
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
men people tree
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.
reality people photograph
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
real moving people
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
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.
thinking people charm
i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
running ambition people
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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.
art artist people
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
photography people portraits
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
american-photographer concern consider human pictures simply
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
picks
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.