Richard Avedon

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PROFILE

• Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 –

October 1, 2004) was an American

photographer.

• Avedon was born in New York City, to a

Jewish Russian family.

• He died in San Antonio, Texas at the age

of 81.

• Richard Avedon wasn’t any ordinary

photographer, he was a FASHION

photographer.

• Richard Avedon contributed most of his

photographs and work to Vogue magazine

and Life magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

YOUTH Richard Avedon was born in a Russian Jewish family, in New

York. He was born on (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004).

Richard studied philosophy in college at Columbia University

but dropped out in 1941 to serve in the US Merchant

Marines photographic section. When he returned from

service he worked as a photographer in a department store

and studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch at The

Design Laboratory, New School for Social Research in New

York City.

A v e d o n Fas h i o n P h o t o g r a p h s

Avedon did not wallow to the

standard techniques of taking fashion photographs, where models

stood emotionless and

odd-looking. Instead, Avedon showed models full of emotion,

smiling, laughing, and, many times,

in action.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHS

From FASHION and BEYOND…In addition to his continuing fashion work, Avedon began to branch out and started to

photograph patients of mental hospitals, the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, protesters of the Vietnam

War, and later in his career, he shot pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During this

period, Avedon also created two famous sets of portraits

of The Beatles, a popular band back in the 1960s.

Richard Avedon: Camera

Avedon was always interested in how portraiture captures the personality and soul of its subject. As his reputation as a photographer became widely known, he brought in many famous faces to his studio and photographed them with a large-format 8x10 view camera. 8x10

Camera

Richard Avedon’s LIFE

In 1944, Avedon married Dorcas Marie Nowell (1925—2011);

she became the model and actress Doe Avedon; they divorced after five

years of marriage. In 1951, he married

Evelyn Franklin; she died on March 13,

2004. Their marriage produced one son, John Avedon, an

author and authority on Tibet.

Here is a portrait of Avedon's first wife: Dorcas Marie Nowell (Doe Avedon)

R. I .P. Richard Avedon

On October 1, 2004, Avedon died of a brain

hemorrhage in San Antonio, Texas, while

shooting an assignment for The New Yorker. A brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke. At the

time of his death, he was also working on a new

project titled Democracy to focus on the run-up to

the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

Avedon’s LEGACY

Avedon left behind a legacy. He not only inspires many new

photographers, he’s photos are an inspiration of new, modern

photographs. He wasn’t just an ordinary FASHION PHTOGRAPHER. He not only took photos of styles

and clothing designs, he took photos of the hardships and past of

the United States of America.

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