Weekly Inspirations #3 - Richard Avedon
“His fashion and portrait photographs helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century”
New York Times, 2004
Born: May 15, 1923. New York
Died: October 1, 2004.
Today we celebrate Richard Avedon, the fashion photographer who defined the entire image of fashion photography during the 1960s-2000s. A chief photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and a lead photographer for Vogue, Richard helped define the fashion industry as it entered a new era of freedom and popularisation.
“He asked me to do extraordinary things but I always knew I was going to be part of a great picture”
Dovima
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Weekly Inspirations #1 Louise Dahl Wolfe
Weekly Inspirations #2 Henri Cartier-Bresson