Quote Responses

"My portraits are more about me than the people I photograph."

- Richard Avedon

When I photograph someone, I try to capture an aspect of them that everyone would recognize. But, I also try to do so in my personal style (which has been changing a lot lately, but what is most pleasing to me is what I do).

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

You literally do take photos. But, from a somewhat-philosophical point of view, you are making them - the angle you take, where the light is coming from, and all those little details are what create a photo. In portraits, it is the people, in my personal opinion, who are what really make the photo.

"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it."

- John Berger

With a painter's eye, he (or she) is showing the world how they see. It goes through their own personal filter - how they grew up and where they grew up and with who they grew up with will affect this filter. Which is when art historians come in and interpret everything that the artist did to depict how they saw the world at that moment. Through the photograph, it is more likely that the viewer will view the photo as they see it, and not how the photographer saw it.