Richard Avedon (Portrait inspiration) ~Charise J (240 ART)

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Richard Avedon 

Richard Avedon was born in 1923 and died in 2004. He started photography when he was around twelve with the YMCA camera club. By the age of twenty-two, he became a freelance photographer. He was a portrait photographer who wanted to evoke the life of his subject and their personality. He continued his photography work with companies (brands and magazines).    

Avedon was chosen because he captures people in their element. As in, he likes to take photos of people with or in something that they like. Avedon wanted to be a photographer that works on taking photos of people not being seen as a celebrity. He also was about taking risks, as in challenging his work and the person who wants their photo taken. Not many people would consider taking a risk with photos because something could go wrong, or the photo won’t come out good. People like me do find that a bad photo could be a good one because everyone has different perspectives.  

What I aimed for in taking photos of people is pretty much the same thing. I like to make people feel comfortable with something that they like to do. I don't want to be a photographer that forces people to do something that they don't like. That will lead to me being in an uncomfortable place more than the person that I was taking the picture for. Since taking photos of people in their natural element or something that they enjoy is interesting to me, compares me to what Avedon is good at. 

Getting people in their natural state is what I want to do because you can see them for themselves. You could know about what they are into instead of assuming. Photographers grasp the person's state of what the televisions and paparazzi can’t seem to grab. No one knows the truth of somebody unless they get to know them and that is what Avedon does when he’s having a photoshoot with the person.   


~Charise J

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