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Artist Biography

1923-2004. Born and lived in New York, NY, U.S.A.

For the last half of the 20th century, Richard Avedon’s fashion and portrait photographs defined America’s image of style, beauty and culture. Upon his return to New York, in 1944, after serving as a photographer in the U.S. Merchant Marines, he began working as an advertising photographer for a department store, but he was quickly discovered by the legendary Alexey Brodovitch, who at that time served as the artistic director of legendary fashion magazine, Harper's Bazaar. Soon, he was delivering photographs to Harper's regularly, as well as to Life and Look Magazines, respectively, and by 1946, he had established his own studio. For the next six decades, Avedon had an enormously successful career, making pictures both for magazines and artistic display, bridging journalism and the art world, insiders and outsiders. Avedon will be remembered as one of the most innovative fashion and portrait photographers of the 20th century.

 

Exhibitions

GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: FROM THE STREET

Robert Adams, Richard Avedon, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Abbas Kiarostami, Lisette Model, Garry Winogrand
May 19 - Jul 01, 2011

Richard Avedon

May 06 - Jun 26, 2010

GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: STAGED AND STARTLED

RICHARD AVEDON, TINA BARNEY, HARRY CALLAHAN, WILLIAM EGGLESTON, ROBERT FRANK, LEE FRIEDLANDER, ANDRE KERTESZ, STEVEN KLEIN, LISETTE MODEL, IRVING PENN, JOEL STERNFELD, GARRY WINOGRAND
Mar 25 - May 01, 2010

Press

Forbes

Nov 08, 2011

NEW YORK OBSERVER

STAGED, STARTLED AND PHOTOGRAPHED
Apr 14, 2010

TOUT VA BIEN

GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: STAGED AND STARTLED
Apr 01, 2010

NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE BLOG- THE MOMENT

HOW THEY GOT THE SHOT: GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Mar 25, 2010