Matter Quote by Thomas Struth

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

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

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

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

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

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 portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

“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

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross