“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon.
When taking a picture, you are choosing the lighting, the composition and the subjects. Every detail is up to the photographer to manage. Everyone has a unique style of photographing. This also ties into the quote "You don't take a photograph, you make it." by Ansel Adams. The subject is placed into the frame and the photographer alters the scene to his/her thoughts.
“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
Photographs are a piece in time, while paintings are bits and pieces of memory or imagination. One can look at a picture, of let us say...a girl blowing out candles. This can trigger our own memories of birthdays and celebrations. When you view a painting, you cannot always relate to what is painted because it does not always exist in reality.
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