Richard Avedon's Quote

 "The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph, it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."- Richard Avedon.

    When I think of photography, I see it as a person capturing a moment in time that represents art and gives meaning. What Avedon states in his quote seems more of the opposite of what I first said, to a certain extent. Avedon states that there's inaccuracy in a photograph, meaning that a picture doesn't truly represent the subject it shows. Looking deeper into it, Richard Avedon is a portraiture photographer. As he takes photos of his subjects, the photograph is accurate because it captures a moment in which we can convey how we see it. 

    "The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph, it is no longer a fact but an opinion." This line, what I believe, means that any photo that has meaning is, later on, becomes an "opinion." The opinion seems like our way of seeing it; when looking through his work or any other work, we see something that can be interpreted in many ways. The truth within a photo is not there because we don't know the actual truth except the one taking the picture.

 Richard Avedon, Killer Joe Piro, dance teacher, New York 1962

        The photo above is one of Richard Avedon's works, "Killer Joe Piro, dance teacher." This image, to me, conveys someone who's crazy; given the name "Killer Joe Piro," it gives me the idea that the person above is a psychopath. Since the individual in the photo moves, it gives it an intriguing yet weird vibe that was very well captured; whether the emotion of the person is what we believe in is up to the watcher to interpret it. Overall, Avedon's quote represents that when it comes to photography, the truth is not there because we see things differently, but the accuracy is there when taking the photo because that moment did happen is just up to the people to view it as they desire.