Edition 2008
Richard AVEDON
Born in 1923 in New York.
Died in 2004 in Texas.
Died in 2004 in Texas.
Richard Avedon began his career as staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar magazine in 1945. Between 1947 and 1984, he was the photographer of the French fashion collections for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
In 1957, he worked as visual consultant in the production of Stanley Donen's movie Funny Face, based on his own career. He left Harper's Bazaar for Vogue in 1966 and kept working there till 1990.
In 1963, he took pictures of the Civil Rights movement in the South and of the antiwar movement through the United States in 1969.
He travelled to Vietnam as a reporter in 1970. In 1985, he begins to work for the French publication Égoïste. In 1992, he becomes the First staff photographer of the New Yorker.
Three years later, he says one's farewell to the world of fashion with the famous photographic fable In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort, published in The New Yorker of the 6th of November 1995. He died on October 1st, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas. The Richard Avedon Foundation was created in 2005.
Richard Avedon's work was presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in 1993, with two other american photographers (Callahan and Fink) and in 2008: In Memory of the Late Mr and Mrs Comfort. A fable by Richard Avedon in Arles.
Portrait: Richard Avedon at Robert Frank's, Mabou-Mines, Nova Scotia, July 17, 1975.
In 1957, he worked as visual consultant in the production of Stanley Donen's movie Funny Face, based on his own career. He left Harper's Bazaar for Vogue in 1966 and kept working there till 1990.
In 1963, he took pictures of the Civil Rights movement in the South and of the antiwar movement through the United States in 1969.
He travelled to Vietnam as a reporter in 1970. In 1985, he begins to work for the French publication Égoïste. In 1992, he becomes the First staff photographer of the New Yorker.
Three years later, he says one's farewell to the world of fashion with the famous photographic fable In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort, published in The New Yorker of the 6th of November 1995. He died on October 1st, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas. The Richard Avedon Foundation was created in 2005.
Richard Avedon's work was presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in 1993, with two other american photographers (Callahan and Fink) and in 2008: In Memory of the Late Mr and Mrs Comfort. A fable by Richard Avedon in Arles.
Portrait: Richard Avedon at Robert Frank's, Mabou-Mines, Nova Scotia, July 17, 1975.
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