" A portrait is not a likeness. 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 are the truth...the subject has to learn and to relate to me and the lens as if we are one and the same and to accept the discipline and concentration involved.
This exchange involves manipulations,submissions. Assumptions are reached and acted upon that could seldom be made with impunity in real life.....I can heighten through instructions what he does naturally, how he is."
Richard Avedon
