Ross Angus
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"I always prefer to work in the studio.It isolates people from their environment....
The concentration has to come from me and involve them. Sometimes the force of it grows so strong that sounds in the studio go unheard. Time stops. We share a brief, intense intimacy. But it's unearned. It has no past...no future. And when the sitting is over-when the picture is done-there's nothing left except the photograph...the photograph and a kind of embarassment. They leave...and I don't know them. I've hardly heard what they said. If I meet them a week later in a room somewhere, I expect they won't recognize me. Because I don't feel I was really there. At least that part of me was...is now in the photograph. And the photographs have a reality for me that the people don't. It's through the photographs that I know them."
-Richard Avedon
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"I always prefer to work in the studio.It isolates people from their environment....
The concentration has to come from me and involve them. Sometimes the force of it grows so strong that sounds in the studio go unheard. Time stops. We share a brief, intense intimacy. But it's unearned. It has no past...no future. And when the sitting is over-when the picture is done-there's nothing left except the photograph...the photograph and a kind of embarassment. They leave...and I don't know them. I've hardly heard what they said. If I meet them a week later in a room somewhere, I expect they won't recognize me. Because I don't feel I was really there. At least that part of me was...is now in the photograph. And the photographs have a reality for me that the people don't. It's through the photographs that I know them."
-Richard Avedon