The photographer Richard Avedon used to joke to that if he ever wrote an autobiography, he would title it “Here Lies Richard Avedon” — a self-referential dig at his tendency to exaggerate and ...

What obligation does a portrait photographer have to their subject? Is it their duty to cast that person in the best light, or the most revealing light? Avedon’s portraits include so many rich details ...

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Truman Capote photographed by Richard Avedon in New York on October 10, 1955. Courtesy of SKIRA When Gianni Versace was a child, he stumbled upon one of the late photographer Richard Avedon’s most ...

Richard Avedon was an influential American fashion and fine art photographer. His iconic portraits of celebrities, spanned more than half of the 20th century, and included Marilyn Monroe, Audrey ...

Some artists are so influential that their contributions are at risk of being taken for granted. Picasso comes to mind, as do Warhol, Rauschenberg, and Johns. In the realm of photography, Richard ...

The celebrated photographer made striking group portraits that he hoped would signal a new level of rigorous intention. Why didn’t the art world notice? By Philip Gefter In the mid-1960s, three of ...

RICHARD AVEDON, WHO DIED LAST WEEK AT 81, USED THE CAMERA AS an all-terrain vehicle. The terrain he crossed was the human form, the social fabric and that permanent terra incognita, the human face. A ...

That was the conundrum for the executive director of the lensman’s foundation James Martin in laying the groundwork for “Avedon 100,” an exhibition that will bow at one of Gagosian’s Chelsea galleries ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Senf, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) What obligation does a portrait ...

With photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern and others, the veteran editor created some of the most indelible images of modern fashion. By Penelope Green Late in Ms. Monroe’s life, ...