His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. Avedon's ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. As Avedon's notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon visited "Toad Hall", Marsh's ranch in Amarillo, several times. After this portrait was taken Marsh and Avedon became friends. He became The New Yorker' s first staff photographer in 1992 and died while on assignment in Texas. He was staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar from 1945 to 1965 and Vogue from 1966 to 1990. When he returned to New York, he studied with Alexey Brodovitch at the Design Laboratory, New School for Social Research and found a job as a photographer in a department store. At age 17, he dropped out of school and joined the merchant marine's photographic section, taking personnel identification photos. His first sitter was the Russian pianist-composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who then lived in the same New York City apartment building. He began to explore photography on his own at age 10 and was immediately drawn to portraiture. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Avedon never completed an academic education. American portrait and fashion photographer. His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject. During the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. Within two years he had been "found" by an art director at HARPER'S BAZAAR and was producing work for them as well as VOGUE, LOOK, and a number of other magazines. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store.
Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's photographic section. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects' characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon's portraits have filled the pages of the country's finest magazines.
None of them is the truth." What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon.
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