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Richard AvedonBy: Colton Macaluso
I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
-Avedon
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May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004Avedon Worked for many magazines in the
birth of his career.
Later Avedon Also worked for fashion designers: Versace, CK, Revlon
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Vogue
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
-Avedon
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Life Magazine
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
-Avedon
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StyleBlank BackgroundMinimalisticNo props No soft lightingStraight forward photographyPortraits
Avedon would often probe his subjects with psychologically uncomforting dialogue to provoke a display of their character.
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Subjects
Avedon had a wide variety of celebrities he photographed all from different walks of
fame
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Andy Warhol displaying The Beatles scars
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John/Jackie John FordKennedy
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Nepotism?
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Or just an over active imagination?
Laura Wilson was Avedon’s assistant for 6 Years
Laura Wilson is the mother to a trio of acting sons
Owen WilsonLuke Wilson
Andrew Wilson
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Wilson and Avedon talking to the subject of a shoot
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Tying it all together!*Wes Anderson grew up with the Wilson
brothersAvedon’s work can be seen from time to
time as influence in Anderson’s filmsMost notably The Royal Tenenbaums
Anjelica Huston was a frequent subject of Avedon’s work
Anderson also works with Huston regularly
*And my infatuation with him
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Wilson’s imitation of Avedon's American West photo of Boyd Fortin
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Here Anderson and Wilson reference In The American West to
cast their film Bottle Rocket
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Avedon’s change of heartIn ‘74 Avedon started his battle with severe
heart inflammation
This reassurance of mortality caused him to take on a new subject after being
approached by the director of the Amon Carter Museum, in Texas.
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In The American Westfocused on everyday working class people:
miners in dirty work clothes, housewives, farmers and drifters
5 Years of work
762 people
17,000 sheets of 8 x 10 film
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I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
-Avedon
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In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort, a fable by Richard Avedon.
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Avedon’s last shoot was done for The New Yorker November of ‘95
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Avedon died October of ’04 from a brain hemorrhage, at the age of 81, leaving behind the legacy of
his work and philosophy.