Able Quote by Albert Watson

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the…

— Paul Strand

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the…

— Giles Duley

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a…

— Francis Bacon

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a…

— Tim Walker

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible,…

— Martin Schoeller

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

— Andy Warhol

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

— Philippe Halsman

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in…

— Annie Leibovitz

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a…

— Richard Avedon