Richard Avedon

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Photography I

About

• 1923-2004

• Born in NYC, started out as fashion photographer

• Worked for NY magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker

• “In the American West” considered Avedon’s magnum opus by some– Portraits of miners, oil field workers in their

soiled work clothes, unemployed drifters, teenagers

• Website: http://www.richardavedon.com/

Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris, France 1955

Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, 1981

Truman Capote, 1974

Marian Anderson, contralto,

New York City, June 30, 1955

Ezra Pound, Poet, 1958

Samuel Beckett

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor (King

Edward VIII), 1957

Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United

States, 1964

Cher on the cover of Time magazine, March 17, 1975

Marilyn Monroe, actress , New York City, May 6, 1957

Psychedelic portraits of The Beatles, 1967

George Bush, Director, CIA, Langley, Virginia, March 2, 1976

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Washington D.C., May 7, 1976

Andy Warhol, artist , New York City, August 20, 1969

Edward Albee, Playwright

Michael Moore, Political Satirist

“In the American West,” 1979-1984

Sandra Bennett, twelve year old Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980

Emma Lee Wellington, housewife North Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980

Ruby Mercer, publicist, Frontier Days, Cheyenne,

Wyoming, 1982

Blue Cloud Wright, slaughterhouse worker, Omaha, Nebraska, 1979

Roberto Lopez, oil field worker, Lyons, Texas, September 28, 1980

Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Year Old Rattlesnake Skinner,

Sweetwater, TX, 1979

James Kimberlin, drifter, 1980

Russell Laird, Tammy Baker, seventeen year olds, Sweetwater,

Texas, 1979

Ronald Fischer, beekeeper , Davis, California, May 9, 1981

Jan Patricio Lobato, carney Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980