Richard Avedon:
This post is suppose to be about Richard Avedon Talking about his father in an interview but I don't have the article any more so I'm going to have to write most of it out of memory. I also wanted to add some stuff about Richard Avedon that I wish we went over.
We read this article that was an interview on Richard Avedon about how he takes portraits and who he shoots. At first when I read the article I thought that he was just another fine art nut job trying to make things seem more artistly complex then they actually are, however when i looked him up online a little more I found out that the article did not do him much justice. In the article he was basically talking about how taking portraits is like directing a stage that every thing is place some where for a reason. I know I am suppose to write about him and his father but it is just not memorable to me........wait hold that thought I just remembered the name of the article, its called "Borrowed Dogs" and I found it online so I'm going to read it again real quick.
Ok I just read the article again, now that I have refreshed my memory. Richard Avedon is trying to say that you might be able to take a good photo that captures some one looking good, but its not a really beautiful photograph unless you capture the true soul and essence of the person who they really are. For example he said that they had a portrait of his dad smiling sitting next to a piano, he said him and his family use to call the portrait "smilin' Jack Avedon" because thats not who his father actually was he wasn't that smiling guy sitting next to the piano, Richard Avedon said about his father "You are angry and hungry and alive.". Richard Avedon is in fact saying that you cant just take a picture of your subject but you have to take a picture of who they actually are not who they are portraying to be.
It's funny that I am writing a response on this because I just wrote a response on Belinsky writings in the 19th century writings on realism and naturalism art. Belinsky says that your art isn't true unless you capture the truth and beauty of the subject, not to just record what you see or make a copy of the subject. I wanna put up some other stuff I found on Richard Avedon some stuff I really wish we went over in class.
We read this article that was an interview on Richard Avedon about how he takes portraits and who he shoots. At first when I read the article I thought that he was just another fine art nut job trying to make things seem more artistly complex then they actually are, however when i looked him up online a little more I found out that the article did not do him much justice. In the article he was basically talking about how taking portraits is like directing a stage that every thing is place some where for a reason. I know I am suppose to write about him and his father but it is just not memorable to me........wait hold that thought I just remembered the name of the article, its called "Borrowed Dogs" and I found it online so I'm going to read it again real quick.
Ok I just read the article again, now that I have refreshed my memory. Richard Avedon is trying to say that you might be able to take a good photo that captures some one looking good, but its not a really beautiful photograph unless you capture the true soul and essence of the person who they really are. For example he said that they had a portrait of his dad smiling sitting next to a piano, he said him and his family use to call the portrait "smilin' Jack Avedon" because thats not who his father actually was he wasn't that smiling guy sitting next to the piano, Richard Avedon said about his father "You are angry and hungry and alive.". Richard Avedon is in fact saying that you cant just take a picture of your subject but you have to take a picture of who they actually are not who they are portraying to be.
It's funny that I am writing a response on this because I just wrote a response on Belinsky writings in the 19th century writings on realism and naturalism art. Belinsky says that your art isn't true unless you capture the truth and beauty of the subject, not to just record what you see or make a copy of the subject. I wanna put up some other stuff I found on Richard Avedon some stuff I really wish we went over in class.
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