-Richard Avedon.
You mustn’t want, you must be receptive. Don’t think even. The brain’s a bit dangerous.
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘How do you make your pictures?’ I was puzzled . . .
I said, ‘I don’t know, it’s not important.’
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
Richard Avedon, "You know I'm Jewish?"
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Ezra Pound, Poet, Rutherford, New Jersey, at the home of William Carlos Williams, June 30, 1958
Brilliant poet. Known anti-Semite.
"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
