Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon taking a picture with a Rolleiflex

Richard Avedon is one of my favorite photographers, he was born in May 15, 1923 (NYC) and died of a brain hemorrhage in San Antonio, Texas, in October 1, 2004; he got married two times and only got one son (John Avedon)

One of the reasons why i like him so much, is because he gave so much to one of the fields of photography that i love the most: fashion; Avedon did not conform to the standard technique of taking studio fashion photographs, where models stood emotionless and seemingly indifferent to the camera. Instead, Avedon showed models full of emotion, smiling, laughing, and, many times, in action in outdoor settings which was revolutionary at the time. However, towards the end of the 1950s he became dissatisfied with daylight photography and open air locations and so turned to studio photography, using strobe lighting.


He has worked for Vouge, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Look, etc

Beside all his work in the fashion industries, he got an enormous amount of studio portraits taken to civil rights workers, politicians, rock bands, famous people, anonymous ones, etc