short biography

Richard Avedon (b. 1923, New York City; d. 2004 San Antonio, Texas) was born and lived in New York City. He was one of the most significant fashion and portrait photographer of the last half-century and a chronicler of the New York Society, revolutionizing the fashion aesthetics of his time - he also made documentation photo series of the American depression. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, amongst others.

https://www.avedonfoundation.org

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collection/s

CCP Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Cincinnati Art Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt Fondation Francès, Senlis Fotomuseum Winterthur Fundacio Sunol, Barcelona International Center of Photography, New York LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art MUNTREF Museo de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires . Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg / Florida Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne National Museum of Photography Copenhagen National Portrait Gallery, London Sammlung F.C. Gundlach Smithsonian Institution, Washington Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Vancouver Art Gallery °
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galleries

Corkin Gallery, Toronto Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco ° Johannes Faber, Wien Sho, Tokyo
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