Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (born May 15, 1923 in New York – Oct. 1, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas) had Russian and Jewish immigrant parents and is considered the worlds most famous and highest paid photographer for decades with a rare level of success in his 20’s.
Style Fashion Photographer
Beginnings After dropping out of high school at age 17 Richard Avedon worked at the Merchant Marines photographic section. Later he received an honary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London in 1989.
Career Richard Avedon worked as a photographer at a department store before getting a position at Vogue and Harpers Bazaar and served as staff photographer for 45 years. At the New Yorker he became the first staff photographer. He was famous for using white backgrounds. Richard loved his work and sadly passed away working on his “On Democracy” project which he was shooting for the New Yorker magazine. He suffered a brain hemorrhage.
In Today’s Culture By Popular Magazine Richard Avedon was named one of the world’s 10 finest photographers.
Business Ventures Richard Avedon has exhibits in the Kunst Museum Wolfsburg in Germany, the Whitney Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He published a number of books with his work including his auto biography.
Honors Richard Avedon received the National Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2003.
www.richardavedon.com
www.richardavedon.info/photos/index.html
Comments
There is one comment for this post.
Richard was one of the best fashion photographers of our time. And I just found out that Christie’s in Paris is going to auction off 60 of his photographs endowing philanthropy and supporting photography. One of my favorite photographs of his is Dovima with Elephants taken in 1955. I miss his vision greatly.