Certain Quote by Richard Avedon

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

— Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

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

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that…

— Paul Strand

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

— Thomas Struth

“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How they want…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

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

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are…

— John Berger

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro