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Author Description People note fashion photography and stark portraits of <b>Richard Avedon</b>, an American. <br /><br />Richard Avedon captured ideals of celebrity and beauty in the 20th and early 21st centuries to helped to establish a contemporary art form. Avedon developed a distinct, iconic style. While his contemporaries focused on single moments or composed formal images, his lighting and minimalist white backdrops drew the viewer to the intimate, emotive power of the expression of the subject. <br /><br />Richard Avedon studied philosophy at <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29645113._Columbia_University" title=" Columbia University" rel="nofollow noopener"> Columbia University</a>, New York, and served in the department of the merchant marines of the United States before studying with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/768210._Alexey_Brodovitch" title=" Alexey Brodovitch" rel="nofollow noopener"> Alexey Brodovitch</a> at the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17065680._New_School_for_Social_Research" title=" New School for Social Research" rel="nofollow noopener"> New School for Social Research</a>. <br /><br />From 1945, he worked and revolutionized the craft even as he honed his aesthetic to 1965. He worked in magazines from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12198907._Harper_s_Bazaar" title=" Harper's Bazaar" rel="nofollow noopener"> Harper's Bazaar</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29679255._Vogue" title=" Vogue" rel="nofollow noopener"> Vogue</a> to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/42873304._Life" title=" Life" rel="nofollow noopener"> Life</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5168384._Look" title=" Look" rel="nofollow noopener"> Look</a>. Later, he moved into journalism and the art world. His subjects included pop stars, models, musicians, writers, artists, workers, political activists, soldiers, victims of Vietnam War, politicians, and his family. <br /><br />Curator <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/39073._Paul_Roth" title=" Paul Roth" rel="nofollow noopener"> Paul Roth</a> observes: “In an Avedon portrait, the face maps an intersection: It is a place where the world outside the photograph meets the world inside the mind.”<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2949926._Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title=" Metropolitan Museum of Art" rel="nofollow noopener"> Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> in New York presented solo exhibitions in 1978 and 2002. The <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/490597._Whitney_Museum_of_Art" title=" Whitney Museum of Art" rel="nofollow noopener"> Whitney Museum of Art</a> in New York in 1994 mounted major retrospective. The <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/987216._Louisiana_Museum_of_Modern_Art" title=" Louisiana Museum of Modern Art" rel="nofollow noopener"> Louisiana Museum of Modern Art</a>, Humblebaek, Denmark, mounted his works in 2007, and the exhibit traveled to Milan, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and San Francisco through 2009. <br />

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