The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
Richard AvedonSometimes 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 AvedonIt's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.
Richard AvedonI hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
Richard Avedon