Research Project Richard Avedon
Every photograph is accurate. None of them is the truth. - Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon asserts "The camera lies all the time." He points out that in real life, family members scream, argue, cry, yet he has never seen a photograph album of people in such moods. He does not seek the role of photographer as objective automaton, but describes interacting with his subject, injecting himself into the photograph through the subject's reaction. He views his photographs as a record of that interaction, saying "Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament". He says he is afraid of not being able to feel, as he considers this to be the death of a photographer
The faces in Avedon’s portraits stare out from the page with unflinching gazes, showing the frank intensity we normally only observe in our own reflection, inviting the viewer to study another person with an immediacy that could never be experienced in real life without embarrassment. A picture of Marilyn Monroe shows a mature and pensive woman looking
off to one side of the camera, arms hanging resignedly by her sides, for once not playing to the lens, providing a remarkable vision of the famous beauty off duty and revealing the conscious craft she brought to her image.
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/port/overview.php
Richard Avedon asserts "The camera lies all the time." He points out that in real life, family members scream, argue, cry, yet he has never seen a photograph album of people in such moods. He does not seek the role of photographer as objective automaton, but describes interacting with his subject, injecting himself into the photograph through the subject's reaction. He views his photographs as a record of that interaction, saying "Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament". He says he is afraid of not being able to feel, as he considers this to be the death of a photographer
The faces in Avedon’s portraits stare out from the page with unflinching gazes, showing the frank intensity we normally only observe in our own reflection, inviting the viewer to study another person with an immediacy that could never be experienced in real life without embarrassment. A picture of Marilyn Monroe shows a mature and pensive woman looking
off to one side of the camera, arms hanging resignedly by her sides, for once not playing to the lens, providing a remarkable vision of the famous beauty off duty and revealing the conscious craft she brought to her image.
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