Richard Avedon was an American fashion photographer born in New York City in 1923 to a Russian Jewish family. He made significant contributions to Vogue, Life, and Harper's Bazaar magazines through his fashion and portrait photography. Avedon helped define fashion photography and is renowned for his portraits of celebrities, world leaders, and cultural figures. He died of a brain hemorrhage in 2004 while working on an assignment in Texas at the age of 81.

1. Richard Avedon

2. PROFIL
•
E Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October
1, 2004) was an American photographer.
• Avedon was born in New York City, to a
Jewish Russian family.
• He died in San Antonio, Texas at the age
of 81.
• Richard Avedon wasn’t any ordinary
photographer, he was a FASHION
photographer.
• Richard Avedon contributed most of his
photographs and work to Vogue magazine
and Life magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

3. Richard Avedon was born in a Russian Jewish family, in New
York. He was born on (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004).
Richard studied philosophy in college at Columbia University
but dropped out in 1941 to serve in the US Merchant Marines
photographic section. When he returned from service he
worked as a photographer in a department store and
studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch at The Design
Laboratory, New School for Social Research in New York City.

4. Avedon Fashion Photographs

5. FASHION
PHOTOGRAPHS

6. From FASHION and
In addition to his
continuing fashion
work, Avedon began to
branch out and started to
photograph patients of
mental hospitals, the Civil
Rights Movement in
1963, protesters of the
Vietnam War, and later in
his career, he shot pictures
of the fall of the Berlin
Wall. During this
period, Avedon also
created two famous sets of
portraits of The Beatles, a
popular band back in the
1960s.

7. 8x10 Camera

8. Richard Avedon’s
Here is a portrait of Avedon's first wife:
Dorcas Marie Nowell (Doe Avedon)

9. R . I . P. Richard Avedon
On October 1, 2004, Avedon
died of a brain hemorrhage
in San Antonio, Texas, while
shooting an assignment for
The New Yorker. A brain
hemorrhage is a type of
stroke. At the time of his
death, he was also working
on a new project titled
Democracy to focus on the
run-up to the 2004 U.S.
presidential election.

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