1. Richard Avedon

2. PROFIL
•
E Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October
1, 2004) was an American photographer.
• Avedon was born in New York City, to a
Jewish Russian family.
• He died in San Antonio, Texas at the age
of 81.
• Richard Avedon wasn’t any ordinary
photographer, he was a FASHION
photographer.
• Richard Avedon contributed most of his
photographs and work to Vogue magazine
and Life magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

3. Richard Avedon was born in a Russian Jewish family, in New
York. He was born on (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004).
Richard studied philosophy in college at Columbia University
but dropped out in 1941 to serve in the US Merchant Marines
photographic section. When he returned from service he
worked as a photographer in a department store and
studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch at The Design
Laboratory, New School for Social Research in New York City.

4. Avedon Fashion Photographs

5. FASHION
PHOTOGRAPHS

6. From FASHION and
In addition to his
continuing fashion work,
Avedon began to branch
out and started to
photograph patients of
mental hospitals, the Civil
Rights Movement in 1963,
protesters of the Vietnam
War, and later in his career,
he shot pictures of the fall
of the Berlin Wall. During
this period, Avedon also
created two famous sets of
portraits of The Beatles, a
popular band back in the
1960s.

7. 8x10 Camera

8. Richard Avedon’s
Here is a portrait of Avedon's first wife:
Dorcas Marie Nowell (Doe Avedon)

9. R . I . P. Richard Avedon
On October 1, 2004, Avedon
died of a brain hemorrhage
in San Antonio, Texas, while
shooting an assignment for
The New Yorker. A brain
hemorrhage is a type of
stroke. At the time of his
death, he was also working
on a new project titled
Democracy to focus on the
run-up to the 2004 U.S.
presidential election.

11. The End
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