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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.

~Richard Avedon

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People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

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People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

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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.

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Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

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There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.

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Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: May 15th, 1923

Died: October 1st, 2004

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