1. By: Maria Leon

2.  Attended high school in the Bronx
 Never completed an academic education
 Joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic
section
This is Richard Avedon

3.  Richard was best known for his fashion and
celebrity portraits
 Avedon primarily shot back and white
 Well know for his fashion work
 Avedon was also known for defining
America’s image of beauty and culture

4.  Richard Avedon was influenced by Martin
Munkacsi
 Martin Munkacsi’s action shots where the ones
who influenced Avedon
 Munkacsi was believed to be the father of
fashion photography
This is one of Martin Munkacsi’s
fashion photos

5.  Avedon helped revolutionize the art in fashion
in the 20th century
 He brought realisms and outrageous fantasy to
the photos
 His photography came to have public
imagination
 Avedon brought photography to the streets

6. Richard Avedon, Twiggy, hair by Ara
Gallant, Paris studio, January, 1968; ©
2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

7.  Avedon influenced Annie Leiboritz
 They were both fashion and celebrity
photographers

8.  Avedon was ground breaking the way he
viewed beauty
 He was the development of portrait
photography

10. Elise Daniels with street
performers, suit by
Balenciaga, Le Marais,
Paris, August 1948
Photograph by Richard
Avedon
© The Richard Avedon
Foundation

11. Buster Keaton, comedian, New
Debbie
McClendon, carney, Thermopolis, Wy York, September 19, 1952
Photograph by Richard Avedon
oming, July 29, 1981
© The Richard Avedon
Photograph by Richard Avedon
Foundation
© The Richard Avedon Foundation

13. “A portrait is not a
likeness. The moment
an emotion or fact is
transformed into a
photograph it is no
longer a fact but an
opinion. There is no
such thing as
inaccuracy in a
photograph. All
photographs are
accurate. None of
them is the truth.” –
Richard Avedon

14.  http://www.vignettemagazine.com/features/
photographers-on-film-dick-avery-in-funny-
face/
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/0
1CND-AVED.html?_r=0
 http://brabbu.com/blog/2012/09/avedons-
readings-of-the-surface/
 http://nymag.com/thecut/2009/05/the_impo
rtance_of_richard_aved.html

15.  http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_
exhib
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/avedon/p
hotography-quotes.htm itions/releases/435