FOAM

"My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface." - Richard Avedon, 1980

FOAM

Something sticky or...light. Not photographic light, light that equals weightlessness. Like a soul.

I watched an interview documentary of Richard Avedon today, after pondering his photographs. He talked about his shoots; looking. Who is in control of the photograph? The end-product? The photographer or the subject?

They said that he was able to reveal the actuality of the people in his portraits. He looked, they looked back. Yet their actuality was always the reflection of his own: questions, answers. Foam, or something like it.