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Avedon, Richard

(b. 15 May 1923 in New York City; d. 1 October 2004 in San Antonio, Texas), prolific and innovative fashion and portrait photographer whose images in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker defined style and sophistication for sixty years.

Avedon’s parents, Anna (Polonsky) Avedon, a homemaker, and Jacob Israel Avedon, a clothing store owner, were from second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrant families who had settled in New York City’s Lower East Side and then the Bronx. His mother’s family owned a dress manufacturing business. His father was the owner of Avedon’s Fifth Avenue, a women’s clothing specialty shop in the Bronx that went bankrupt during the Great Depression. Avedon’s father successfully reopened the store in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, commuting to it from the Bronx by train. Avedon and his younger sister avidly read fashion magazines as children. Avedon later wrote about his childhood, “we used to think of ourselves as a fash

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The Negatives Have All Been Destroyed

There are so many reasons to love Richard Avedon’s photographs. And so many of them to love.

Taken as a whole, Avedon’s 60-year archive of photographic portraiture synthesizes the raw materials of glamour, wit, intellect and authenticity.

Millions enjoyed and found inspiration from encounters with his photographs, most commonly on the pages of Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker and many other magazines, and in advertisements for most of the leading fashion and beauty brands of the 20^th century.

Avedon created photographs that tested the boundaries of art and commerce, and his iconic portraits of artists, politicians, scholars, performers and sometimes even mainstream Americans are as important to our understanding of his larger project as his images of conventional beauty. Certainly, premier museums including MOMA, The Whitney and The Met sought to promote Avedon’s legitimacy as an artist via blockbuster exhibitions and cata

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Richard Avedon

American photographer (1923–2004)

"Avedon" redirects here. For other uses, see Avedon (disambiguation).

Richard Avedon
Avedon in 2004
Born	(1923-05-15)May 15, 1923 New York City, U.S.
Died	October 1, 2004(2004-10-01) (aged 81) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	The New School for Social Research
Spouses	Doe Avedon (m. 1944; div. 1949) Evelyn Franklin (m. 1951)
Children	1
Relatives	Michael Avedon (grandson)

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance.^[1] An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his mode and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the l