It has been denounced as “spinach” and “a racket for selling clothes.” It constitutes, as nearly everybody knows, the third-largest industry in the country, and it is responsible for the existence of a considerable publishing business. To people who are only casually interested in such matters, fashion is a bewildering phenomenon. Please note: Content of biography is presented here as it was published in 1982.Richard Avedon at The Tuileries Gardens in Paris, France, 1956. He is currently a Creative Consultant and Photographer-Director for Calvin Klein Jeans, Christian Dior and Gianni Versace, engaged to develop worldwide images for print and television.Īvedon books include: Observations (1959), Nothing Personal (1964), Alice In Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, The Making of a Play (1973), Portraits(1976), and Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.Īvedon one-man exhibitions were held at: The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1962), The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (1970), The Museum of Modern Art, NY (1974), The Marlborough Gallery, NY (1975), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (1978), The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1979), The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (1979), Isetan, Tokyo, Japan (1979), University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (1980). His client list includes: First Bank of Boston, Chemical Bank, Lincoln Mercury, Colgate, Revlon, Chanel, Max Factor, Clairol, L’Oreal, Chesebrough-Ponds, Blackglama Mink, Suntory Liquor, Don Diego Cigars, CBS Records. He also worked as a visual consultant for the film Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.Īvedon has photographed and directed print and television advertising campaigns for major corporations and advertising agencies throughout the world. In 1976, Rolling Stone magazine published “The Family,” a special bicentennial issue consisting of 76 Avedon portraits, without text, of the most powerful people in America. Other editorial assignments appeared in Life, Look, Theatre Arts, Newsweek, and Time. He joined Vogue in 1966 as a fashion and portrait photographer, and his affiliation with the magazine continues today. He remained a photographer there until 1965. His first editorial photographs appeared in Harper’s Bazaar in 1945. Richard Avedon was born in New York City and studied with Alexey Brodovitch.
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