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The following is a small selection from the thousands of photographs that Richard Avedon took over the course of his sixty-year career. Avedon consistently worked across genres, encompassing portrait, reportage, and fashion photography. Click on an image for information about the photograph.
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- The Legacy of Richard Avedon
Born in New York City, Richard Avedon, always known by family and friends as "Dick," was the son of Russian-Jewish parents, Jacob and Anna Avedon. His exposure to fashion and photography began at an early age. Since his father owned a women's specialty clothing store on Fifth Avenue, he was often present when representatives from upscale fashion ma...
After the end of World War II, Avedon returned home with plans to become a professional photographer. Using some of his photos published in The Helm, he convinced the hugely influential art director for Harper's Bazaar, Alexey Brodovich, to let him study photography at his Design Laboratory of the New School of Social Research. Avedon's photography...
One year after his divorce from Doe in 1949, Avedon's sister, Louise, experienced a serious relapse. She had been working in Avedon's studio but suddenly stopped speaking and became nearly catatonic. She was hospitalized and spent the remainder of her life in mental institutions before she died at age 42. In 1951, Avedon met and married Evelyn Fran...
In 1981, Avedon produced another one of his most memorable and controversial portraits. The heralded actress, Nastassja Kinski, at the time best known for her starring role in Roman Polanski's Academy Award-winning film Tess(1979), posed nude for Avedon. Evidently, the pregnant Nastassja lay on the cold concrete floor of the studio for nearly two h...
Avedon's brash, youthful, and iconoclastic entry into the genre of fashion photography signaled a point of no return: no longer were fashion models frozen in time, statue-like, and imperturbable. Rather, they were living, moving, imperfect beings however beautiful. He imposed simple narratives so that the viewers and consumers could invest as much ...
- American
- May 15, 1923
- New York City, New York
- October 1, 2004
Richard Avedon was an influential American fashion and fine art photographer. View Richard Avedon’s 1,800 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.
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Dec 21, 2022 · Twenty iconic photographs by Richard Avedon including, Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Kennedy, City Hall, New York City, are now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History...
May 15, 2024 · Bob Dylan was fine-tuning “Bringing It All Back Home” in 1965 when Avedon captured him walking down a rain-flecked street in New York. The album included classics like “Mr.Tambourine Man ...
May 15, 2020 · May 15, 2020. Some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th and 21st centuries were taken by photographer Richard Avedon. A self-proclaimed ‘reader of faces,’ Avedon revealed a lesser-seen...
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