All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon's portraits have filled the pages of the country's finest magazines. His ...

Back to Magazine Articles Richard Avedon's In the American West by M A X - K O Z L O F F To Readers (with an interest in the Humanities): ESPA OL From: Max Kozloff, New York The following is a section from a disappeared book. Disappeared , in this case, refers to a book that had come out but was shortly afterward disavowed and withdrawn by its publisher, who dropped the title from the catalogue ...

Richard Avedon (1923- ) Avedon, Richard (1923- ), American fashion and portrait photographer, whose elegant, innovative fashion work soon brought him international renown, as did his sharply focused, bluntly realistic protrait photographs of presidents, writers, and celebrities. Born in New York City, Avedon was trained as a photographer in the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. He ...

RICHARD AVEDON photographer b. 1923 Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. --R.A. In the American West 1979-1984 Allen Silvy, drifter Route 93, Chloride, Nevada 12/14/80 Carol Crittendon, bartender Butte, Montana 7/1/81 Next.... ...