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Quote by Richard Avedon
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I ph

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. – Richard Avedon

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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. – Edward Steichen

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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