Please respond to the following three quotes.
“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon.
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams
“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
I agree and disagree with the first quote by Richard Avedon. Photgraphers arrange things and take pictures of things that have some meaning to them and they want the viewers to get the same meaning/reaction from the pictures, but I disagree in a way because if you are photographing another individual, they might want to express or show their own style and get a different meaning/reaction than what you would want.
I agree and disagree with the second quote by Ansel Adams as well. Most photographers change the scene, pose their models, or do some sort of changes to create the image. On the other hand, there are photographers that enjoy random pictures and take the image/scene as it is and as it is happening.
I agree with the quote by John Berger. While photographs can help individuals remember things or events from the past, our memory of the event still changes with time. If you have a picture of three friends together, each friend might remember something different about when the picture was taken and each could have a different meaning.
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