Richard Avedon
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 2004, San Antonio, Texas.]
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he can’t possibly know about. My concerns are not his. We have separate ambitions for the image. His need to plead his case probably goes as deep as my need to plead mine, but the control is with me.
Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
