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Richard Avedon

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he. . or even I. . wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.

Camera, Kindness, Make, Mean, Photography, Remember
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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.

Connection, Hands, Moment, Order, Person, Taken

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.

Cameras, Forever, Greater, Portraits, Record

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.

Capture, Move, Moving, People, Real

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

Be Good, Difficult, Hard, Occasionally

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Excellence, Face, Ideas, Reading, Seduced, Surface
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