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	GALLERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Avedon, the famed fashion photographer, greatly influenced the world of fashion, photography and art throughout the 40 years of his career (Weiley 86).
		Avedon now has several books published and is referred to by American Photo magazine as "America's Master Photographer." Several wealthy fans ev en paid $100,000 for Avedon to photograph their family (the money was donated to the American Foundation for Aids) (Chua-Eoan 104).
		Avedon's natural talent along with the freshness of his style and technique have made him who he is. "Avedon has continued to reproduce images that shock and alarm, connecting on the morality, aesthetics, and values of the culture in wh ich they are made and acclaimed" (Owen 76).
	members.aol.com /akthyrka/avedon.htm (1525 words)

	Richard Avedon - MSN Encarta
		Avedon created many of his pictures for Vogue, a fashion magazine for which he worked for more than 25 years.
		Avedon was born in New York City and studied at Columbia University from 1940 to 1942.
		Avedon typically photographed people against a plain white background, highlighting the textures and details of the skin in obsessive, almost topographic detail.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576801/Richard_Avedon.html (506 words)

	Art/Museums: Richard Avedon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Avedon is perhaps the most famous portrait photographer of the last half century, best known for his stark fl and white pictures of celebrities.
		Avedon's photograph of Oscar Levant, the pianist and humorist well known for his neuroses, is one of the few that is appears out of focus and depicts him as a screaming madman.
		Avedon are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Bert Lahr, Isak Dinesen, Jean Genet, Francis Bacon, Joseph Brodsky, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, Dorothy Parker, W. Auden, Harold Bloom, Roy Lichtenstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Jean Renoir, Willem de Kooning, John Ford and Buckminster Fuller.
	www.thecityreview.com /avedon.html (1538 words)

	richard avedon
		Avedon also inverts the notion of masculinity and the myth of the cowboy in his photograph of Harrison Tsosie, a cowboy from a Navajo reservation in Window Rock, Arizona which was taken in June, 1979.
		Avedon was probably talking about this kind of reaction when he said that "here, I have a lot of strong feelings for these people."16 Yet the photographs do not engender a sympathetic response and do not demonstrate that Avedon had one.
		Avedon coaxed them to strike a certain pose, took away the effect of natural light which softens facial features, used a type of camera which made their skin into a surface of textures, and placed a fl frame around them, creating a rigid border imprisonment.
	www.cm.aces.utexas.edu /faculty/skrukowski/writings/avedon.html (7454 words)

	Richard Avedon Work, Pictures & Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Avedon was able to define and share his view of the world with such care and precision that one immediately knows when they are looking at a Richard Avedon picture the same way they know when they're looking at a Coca Cola logo.
		Yet it was Avedon's conviction that "We all perform" - with its necessary corollary that "I trust performances" - that allowed both for the model's interpretation, actor-like, of a given role, and his own refusal to distinguish between "the named and unnamed" (in New Yorker terms, the famous and the rest).
		Avedon was in search of the inner spirit alright, but was hijacking the former preserve of the postwar humanist photographic tradition, in searching for something generic outside of their established domain of street photography.
	www.richardavedon.info (3457 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Richard Avedon, dean of photographers, dead at 81
		Richard Avedon poses in front of his self-portraits, part of the exhibit "Richard Avedon: Portraits," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002, in New York.
		Avedon's influence on photography was immense, and his sensuous fashion work helped create the era of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.
		Avedon was married in 1944 to Dorcas Nowell, a model known professionally as Doe Avedon.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20041001-1229-obit-avedon.html (1005 words)

	American Masters . Richard Avedon \| PBS (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Avedon's ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves.
		Famous for their minimalism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops.
		Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon's subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images.
	www.pbs.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wnet/americanmasters/database/avedon_r.html (676 words)

	Max Kozloff - Richard Avedon«s
		Avedon's most recent portrait effort, In the American West, published by Abrams in I985, furthers that theme, once again by a characteristic emphasis at the end of the book.
		In his fashion work for over thirtyfive years, Avedon configured the myth of the hyper-good life of the ultramonied in the bright expressions and the buoyant gestures of expensively outfitted women who flounce through a blank or glittering ambience where there is always enough room for them to open their wings, even in close quarters.
		Unquestionably Avedon called the shots in the studio, but his was the kind of work in which mastery nevertheless had to disguise itself, hold itself in check.
	www.zonezero.com /magazine/articles/kosloff/pagina1Avedon.html (1477 words)

	Richard Avedon Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum reviewed by Sarah Valdez
		Richard Avedon’s fame as a photographer extends far beyond his illustrious fashion career, which began at Alexy Brodovitch’s Harper’s Bazaar in the 1940s and continues to this day.
		Avedon’s photograph of Andy Warhol fingering the scar on his belly where Valerie Solanis shot him, for instance, is eloquently shocking.
		Avedon, a native New Yorker who was born in 1923 to Russian immigrant parents, grew up wanting to be a poet.
	www.lookonline.com /avedonreview.html (681 words)

	richard avedon
		richard avedon, one of the ten greatest photographers in the world, died october 1st, 2004............................................................................................
		avedon died on october 1st, 2004 at age 81.
		richard avedon on the poster of the ‘evidence’ exhibition (1994)
	www.designboom.com /history/avedon.html (521 words)

	The Zeugma: Interviews: Richard Avedon
		Avedon was a fashion photographer long before he made the decision to be one, and he found the prototype Avedon model in his younger sister Louise.
		From the mid-sixties Avedon wove the thread of social commentary into his portraiture instead, and it is portraits that comprise the bulk of both volumes and his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
		Avedon is about to reveal the full extent of his contribution to a vision of contemporary American society, and to almost all fields of photography during the second half of this century.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~karlpeter/zeugma/inters/avedon.htm (1157 words)

	Amazon.ca: Richard Avedon Portraits: Books: Richard Avedon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Avedon Portraits is published to accompany a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
		RICHARD AVEDON PORTRAITS is a stunning work, not only because of the usual expected glory of his photographs, but because of the genuinely artistic concept behind this catalogue for a Museum Exhibition.
		The back side of this tableaux discusses Avedon, his influences and appropriations from painting and other art forms, and does what it sets out to do - make the pieces of the tableaux relevant in the history of the time in which they were photographed.
	www.amazon.ca /Richard-Avedon-Portraits/dp/0810935406 (762 words)

	USATODAY.com - Avedon pushed photography to the edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Avedon, who created thousands of iconic photographs, including one of a naked woman curled up with a snake, died Friday in San Antonio after six days in a coma caused by a cerebral hemorrhage.
		Later, Avedon was acclaimed for his portraits of the rich and famous and the poor and obscure.
		At one time or another, Avedon was anointed one of the 10 greatest photographers in the world, the most influential photographer, photographer of the year and master of photography.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-10-01-avedon-obit_x.htm (856 words)

	Richard Avedon Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The American fashion photographer Richard Avedon (born 1923) was best known for his probing portraits that go beyond recording likenesses to explore the identity of society and to reflect dreams and desires.
		Richard Avedon was born in New York City on May 15, 1923.
		Avedon was also noted for his portraits, which first appeared in Harper's Bazaar but were later published in books and exhibited at museums and gallerys.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/richard-avedon (825 words)

	Richard Avedon
		One of the leading photographers of the century, New York City native Richard Avedon was a restless and relentless chronicler of our time for more than 50 years.
		Avedon brought a new focus to portrait photography, revealing unexpected facets of people-from the world famous to the unknown — against a white background.
		At the time of his death, Avedon was working on a new project entitled “On Democracy.” The project focused on the run-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and featured portraits of the candidates, delegates to the national nominating conventions, and others.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/avedon.html (517 words)

	Richard Avedon: The secrets of America's Master Photographer - - PopPhotoNovember 2004
		As in all the self-portraits I’ve ever seen of him since, Avedon seemed intentionally to have suppressed his abundant energy in front of the lens, as if confirming the primitive suspicion that the camera is a stealer of souls.
		Avedon, a classic intellectual autodidact who had co-edited his high school paper in the Bronx with James Baldwin, was a great fan of the kind of labyrinthine angst Brodkey represented.
		Avedon seemed to think it was the most natural thing in the world to have raised a small army of islanders to help us create a midsummer night’s dream.
	www.popphoto.com /americanphotofeatures/2100 (1728 words)

	RICHARD AVEDON / 1923 - 2004 / Photographer of fashion and real people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Avedon was born in New York City in 1923, to Russian Jewish immigrants.
		As a fashion photographer, Avedon was one of the first to take models out of the studio, to such disparate locales as a NASA launchpad and the pyramids of Egypt.
		Avedon's arresting portraits were shot in cold, harsh light that exposed every pore and crinkle.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/02/MNG4M92UQ41.DTL (1059 words)

	Richard Avedon Summary
		Avedon imparted the animation of streets, narrative, and energy to the garment.
		By the 1950s, Avedon also made memorable non-fashion images, including a 1957 portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in vacant melancholy, 1960s heroic studies of Rudolf Nureyev dancing nude, and 1960s epics of the civil rights movement and mental patients at East Louisiana State Hospital.
		Although Avedon's photographs moved away from fashion toward the topical, social, and character-revealing, the common theme of all his photography has been emotion, always aggressive and frequently shocking.
	www.bookrags.com /Richard_Avedon (1943 words)

	FOXNews.com - Photographer Richard Avedon Dies at 81 - Celebrity Gossip \| Entertainment News \| Arts And Entertainment
		NEW YORK — Richard Avedon (search), the revolutionary photographer who redefined fashion photography as an art form while achieving critical acclaim through his stark fl-and-white portraits of the powerful and celebrated, died Friday.
		Avedon suffered a brain hemorrhage last month while on assignment in San Antonio, Texas, for The New Yorker (search), taking pictures for a piece called "On Democracy." He spent months on the project, shooting politicians, delegates and citizens from around the country.
		Avedon's influence on photography was immense, and his sensuous fashion work helped create the era of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford (search).
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,134237,00.html (1227 words)

	lens culture: Richard Avedon's private collection
		When Richard Avedon died on October 1st, 2004, he left an extraordinary collection of photographs that spans two centuries and reflects an eye attuned equally to masterworks and mug shots.
		Avedon was the first of only three people to purchase Diane Arbus’s landmark portfolio A Box of Ten Photographs, a gesture that signaled so much to the artist that she re-titled his portfolio to include an eleventh print.
		Organized with Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Eye of the Beholder is presented in cooperation with The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog.
	www.lensculture.com /avedon.html (281 words)

	Portraitist Richard Avedon dies - People - www.theage.com.au
		Richard Avedon, who died on Friday aged 81, was probably the most influential fashion photographer of the postwar era and arguably the greatest American portraitist of any epoch.
		Avedon's reputation as an artist was first founded on his record as a fashion photographer.
		Avedon suffered a brain hemorrhage last month while on assignment in San Antonio, Texas, for The New Yorker.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/02/1096527987486.html?oneclick=true (398 words)

	Granta: 'His Various Selves' by Mark Holborn
		Avedon was familiar with the multiple selves of artists.
		Avedon’s portrait is a study in the price of fame or the sheer weight of accelerated creativity.
		Maybe they fulfil what Avedon was looking for when he gave up portraiture in 1965—the subject through time, the observation of the oncoming of age.
	www.granta.com /extracts/1450 (1774 words)

	LensCulture Web Log: Richard Avedon, Thanks again...
		Richard Avedon died on 1 October, 2004, in San Antonio, Texas, while on assignment for The New Yorker magazine.
		And an interesting collection of photographs that Avedon kept for himself was on display at Pace/MacGill in New York this summer, and is now at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, 5 October through 25 November 2006.
		The exhibition, and its catalog, are titled EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, and we are pleased to be able to share some of photos from Avedon's private collection here.
	www.lensculture.com /mt_files/archives/000074.html (262 words)

	IN THE AMERICAN WEST: PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD AVEDON
		Richard Avedon's favorite images from his essay In the American West will again be on public display at the Amon Carter Museum from September 2005 to January 2006.
		Before he died in 2004, Avedon - accompanied by John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photographs at the museum - selected 78 of the original 124 photographs that will be exhibited to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1985 Fort Worth exhibition.
		Both she and Richard Avedon were originally interviewed by KERA in 1985 when the controversial exhibition opened to the public.
	www.kera.org /avedon (377 words)

	Amazon.ca: Richard Avedon: Made in France: Books: Richard Avedon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This major new monograph stands as an important rediscovery of a small but central body of work in the career of one of the world's best known and beloved photographers.
		The Richard Avedon images presented here, many for the first time, were made in Paris for "Harper's Bazaar" during the 1950s.
		What is particularly special about this presentation is that the images are being reproduced to the exact scale of the engraver's prints made for Avedon by the master printer Andre Gremola, and are uncropped, on their original mounts, with all of the artist's notations on both front and back.
	www.amazon.ca /Richard-Avedon-Made-France/dp/188133712X (603 words)

	Amazon.com: Richard Avedon Portraits: Books: Maria Morris Hambourg,Mia Fineman,Richard Avedon,Philippe de Montebello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Avedon has pushed the borders of his art far beyond picture taking: a master psychologist, his portraits are potent statements about the soul and the fears and the anger and the dilapidation and the triumph and the humanity of his subjects.
		Avedon speaks closely of his work, and his persistance of breaking through fake smiles and charlatans, seeking out the truth in people, from the famous to the overlooked.
		Most moving to me was the inclusion of Avedon's own writing in which he comments on his own life and reflects on his work, a lifetime of exploration.
	www.amazon.com /Richard-Avedon-Portraits-Morris-Hambourg/dp/0810935406 (1855 words)

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