Richard Avedon COM 241 Photography I
Dec 30, 2015
Richard Avedon
COM 241
Photography I
About
• 1923-2004
• Born in NYC, started out as fashion photographer
• Worked for NY magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker
• “In the American West” considered Avedon’s magnum opus by some– Portraits of miners, oil field workers in their
soiled work clothes, unemployed drifters, teenagers
• Website: http://www.richardavedon.com/
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris, France 1955
Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, 1981
Truman Capote, 1974
Marian Anderson, contralto,
New York City, June 30, 1955
Ezra Pound, Poet, 1958
Samuel Beckett
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor (King
Edward VIII), 1957
Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United
States, 1964
Cher on the cover of Time magazine, March 17, 1975
Marilyn Monroe, actress , New York City, May 6, 1957
Psychedelic portraits of The Beatles, 1967
George Bush, Director, CIA, Langley, Virginia, March 2, 1976
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Washington D.C., May 7, 1976
Andy Warhol, artist , New York City, August 20, 1969
Edward Albee, Playwright
Michael Moore, Political Satirist
“In the American West,” 1979-1984
Sandra Bennett, twelve year old Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980
Emma Lee Wellington, housewife North Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980
Ruby Mercer, publicist, Frontier Days, Cheyenne,
Wyoming, 1982
Blue Cloud Wright, slaughterhouse worker, Omaha, Nebraska, 1979
Roberto Lopez, oil field worker, Lyons, Texas, September 28, 1980
Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Year Old Rattlesnake Skinner,
Sweetwater, TX, 1979
James Kimberlin, drifter, 1980
Russell Laird, Tammy Baker, seventeen year olds, Sweetwater,
Texas, 1979
Ronald Fischer, beekeeper , Davis, California, May 9, 1981
Jan Patricio Lobato, carney Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980