Richard Avedon on photographing Henry Kissinger: “A

Richard Avedon on photographing Henry Kissinger: “A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.” Here’s the photo that Avedon is referring to. (via personism)

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