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Richard Avedon
Solomoni Namosimalua
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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