Prompt 8,9, & 10

#8- “My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon.
I think in a way photographs in general can be more about the photographer than the subject. The photographer is the one who chooses who or what they will photograph, how they will photograph that subject, and why they are photographing that subject.  If you look at an image, you can see what is there, but you can't always necessarily see the meaning behind it.  Most photographs are personal to the person who took them, and by seeing their images, sometimes it's like seeing into their mind and heart.

#9- “You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams
I feel like people who take pictures are definitely making the image, as I said in the last prompt, they are the ones who choose what, how, and why to make a photograph.  A photographer can set subjects up in a certain way, use certain lighting, etc. to get it to turn out the way they want it to, so they are making the scene, as well as making the physical image.  However, in some cases (like photojournalism), I would say that photographers do take photographs.  If someone photographs something that is going on in life without being altered or set up, they are literally taking an image of something that is already occurring without their help.

#10- “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'm not sure if I would agree that photographs are the opposite of paintings, but I would definitely say that they are different.  Even the best painter probably could not make an image that is EXACTLY like the actual occurrence, however I've seen paintings that have gotten it extremely close.  But I think that the meaning for either can change for different people, because both can record what the person making it remembers.  A painter and a photographer may choose to focus on specific things that happened, while another person who was there at the time may not have even noticed.