Richard Avedon
"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."
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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. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
"الصورة ليست مجرد مطابقة. ما إن يتحول شعور أو واقع إلى صورة، حتى يفقد صفة الحقيقة ليغدو رأيًا. لا مجال للخطأ في الصورة؛ فكل الصور دقيقة، لكن لا واحدة منها هي الحقيقة."
Richard Avedon
"I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone."
"أكره الكاميرات. إنها تتدخل، تعترض طريقي دائمًا. ليتني أستطيع العمل بعينيّ فحسب."
Richard Avedon
"A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is 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."
"الصورة الشخصية الفوتوغرافية هي لقطة لإنسان يدرك أنه مصوَّر، وما يفعله بهذه المعرفة جزءٌ لا يتجزأ من الصورة، تماماً كملابسه أو هيئته."
Richard Avedon
"We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE"
Richard Avedon
"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."
Richard Avedon
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