Avedon, Richard (1923–2004)
US photographer. A fashion photographer with Harper's Bazaar magazine in New York City from the mid-1940s, he moved to Vogue in 1965. He later became the highest-paid fashion and advertising photographer in the world. He became associated with the New Yorker in 1993. Using large-format cameras, his work consists of intensely realistic images, chiefly portraits.
| Born in New York City, Avedon was already pursuing an interest in photography by the age of 10. After studying photography in the US merchant navy and at the New School for Social Research, he turned professional. His primary subject, aside from fashion, was portraits. Many of his dramatic portraits were assembled in such books as Observations 1959 (text by Truman Capote) and Nothing Personal 1974 (text by James Baldwin). |
