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 is the truth.

Its release coincided with an exhibition of the work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But when he works he's so acutely creative so sensitive. After graduating from DeWitt in 1941 Avedon enrolled at Columbia University to study philosophy and poetry but dropped out after one year.

Richard Avedon (May 15 1923 – October 1 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. ".