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A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph, it is an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
On his 1985 book, In The American West

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Describing top fashion editors: "Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."

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Born: May 15, 1923
Died: October 1, 2004 (aged 81)
Bio: Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".
Known for:
  1. Richard Avedon Portraits (2002)
  2. An autobiography (1993)
  3. The sixties (1999)
  4. Evidence, 1944-1994 (1994)
  5. Performance

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