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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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. – Dorothea Lange

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