My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.Richard Avedon
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how t
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
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I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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