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Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance.
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.
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was born and lived in New York City. His interest in photography began at an early age, and he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) camera club when he was twelve years old.
Richard Avedon (born May 15, 1923, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 1, 2004, San Antonio, Texas) was one of the leading mid-20th-century photographers, noted for his portraits and fashion photographs.
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance.
Oct 1, 2004 · Summary of Richard Avedon In a gesture of supreme, youthful confidence, Richard Avedon did away with the standard trope of statue-like, frozen-in-time models of conventional fashion photography. Instead the exuberant young photographer who legendarily never stood still, enlivened his models and, most importantly, showed their human side, flaws ...
Richard Avedon was an influential American fashion and fine art photographer. His iconic portraits of celebrities, spanned more than half of the 20th century, and included Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, The Beatles, Andy Warhol, and Tupac Shakur.
During a career that spanned nearly sixty years, Richard Avedon’s reportage, portraiture, and fashion work dissolved the lines between photographic genres and covered an enormous breadth of subjects.
Richard Avedon was one of the all-time-great fashion photographers. For decades after his emergence onto the scene in 1946, he was a dominant influence on the industry thanks to the energy, imagination and willingness to take risks that he brought to his work.
May 15, 2023 · In honor of Gagosian’s authoritative “Avedon 100” exhibition in New York—and the legendary photographer’s centennial today—we’ve gathered 11 Richard Avedon images from the show ...
