Richard Avedon

Avedon was born in New York City May 15, 1923-October 1, 2004. He has been influenced from the early age of 12 where he had his first Kodak Box Brownie camera.  He went on to study philosophy at Columbia University; he further went on to study photography under Alexey Brodovitch at the Design Laboratory of the new school of social research.

His photography career began unfolding as he worked with one of the world’s most fashionable leading magazines, Vogue as a staff photographer. He worked mostly on the Paris collection from 1966-1990.  Avedon was proclaimed the first ever photographer for The New Yorker in 1992 at age 96. From the start of his career his name rang connotations of being a fashion and portraiture photographer. 

Avedon is an American Photographer whose genre of photography is portraiture and fashion photography. Avedon’s images are mainly about movement and life, his photography has very limited space and movement, only seen in a few of his images that he shows dramatic movement that is dramatic.