Richard Avedon
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The New York Times
Artikler om Richard Avedon fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 26. juni 2011
ARTS | LONG ISLAND; Avedon, Breaking Through the Artifice of Celebrity
Among the anecdotes circulated about the legendary photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004) is one involving the Duke and Duchess of Windsor -- that is, King Edward VIII of England and Wallis Simpson, the American divorcée he married after abdicating the throne. In 1957, Avedon was commissioned to take a portrait of the couple, who were notoriously...
BIG DEAL; Through Avedon's Lens
WHEN Olivier Sarkozy, the half-brother of President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, bought the Upper East Side town house where Richard Avedon had lived and kept a studio for more than 30 years, he knew he had taken charge of a slice of American culture. Mr. Avedon's fashion and portrait photographs had helped define the nation's sense of style and...
HOLIDAY BOOKS; Fashion
Writing in Vogue in 1978, Susan Sontag identified Richard Avedon's fashion photography as symptomatic of the recent historical shift whereby ''fashion'' had ceased to refer to elegant conduct (''general deportment, etiquette, style of speech, diction, accent'') and had come instead to mean surface refinement alone. ''Fashion,'' she observed, ''has...
Wikipedia
Richard Avedon (15. maj 1923 i New York City – 1. oktober 2004 i San Antonio, Texas) var en amerikansk mode- og portrætfotograf.
Avedon fik sin fotografiske uddannelse ved den amerikanske marine under 2. verdenskrig. Han arbejdede fra 1945 som modefotograf for Harper's Bazaar og fra 1966 for Vogue. Avedon er desuden kendt for sine portrætter, forfattere og kendisser. Han stod for en stilistisk fornyelse af modefotografiet. Flere af hans billeder er udgivet i bogform.
I 1991 tildeltes han Hasselbladsprisen.
Website: http://www.richardavedon.com
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