"My portraits are more about me than they are about the
people I photograph." -- Richard Avedon
"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
"Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely
to a certain extent, his relationship to life. I am interested in relating the
problems that affect me to some set of values that I am trying to discover and
establish as being my life. I want to discover and establish them through
photography. This is strictly my affair and does not explain these pictures by
any means. Anyone else not having the desire to take them would realize that I
must have felt this was purely personal. This reason, whether it be good or
bad, is the only reason I can give for these photographs. The photographs that
excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake
of being different, but ones that are different because the individual is different
and the individual expresses himself. I realize that we all do express
ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those
whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression
on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves. I
wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself
and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that
makes photography more exciting." -- Harry Callhan - 1946. Creative Camera, August, 1968, page 270-271
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