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Definition: Avedon, Richard from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

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Biography and most famous work of the former merchant marine who rose to eminence in fashion photography. There is a photo of Avedon and descriptions of the stark black and white images of the great and good in the USA, many of which can be viewed at this site.

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Avedon, Richard

Avedon, Richard

From Gale Biographies: Popular People
Photographer, 1944--. Staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar , 1945-65; staff photographer for Vogue magazine, 1966-70; staff photographer for the New Yorker , 1993--. Work has also appeared in Life, Look, Vanity Fair , and other publications. Exhibitions of photographs include those at Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Marlborough Gallery, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, all in New York City; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, England; Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art, both in Washington, D.C.; Aron Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; and elsewhere in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Selected awards: Named photographer of the year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers, 1985; lifetime achievement award from Fashion Designers of America, 1989; Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation photography prize, 1991. Born May 15, 1923, in New York, NY; son of Jacob Israel (a clothier) and Anne (Polonsky) Avedon; married Dorcas Nowell (a model), 1944 (divorced); …
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From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1923-2004 US photographer Born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he studied at Columbia University and the Design Laboratory of the New School for Social Research, New York, before becoming a staff photographer on Harper's Bazaar (1945-65). In 1966 he moved to Vogue , and…
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Full text Article Avedon, Richard

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born May 15, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 2004, San Antonio, Texas) U.S. photographer. He began studying photography in the U.S. merchant marine. In 1945 he became a regular contributor to Harper’s Bazaar ; he later was closely associated with Vogue . Avedon’s fashion photographs are…
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Full text Article Avedon, Richard

From Gale Biographies: Popular People
Photographer, 1944--. Staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar , 1945-65; staff photographer for Vogue magazine, 1966-70; staff photographer for the New Yorker , 1993--. Work has also appeared in Life, Look, Vanity Fair , and other publications. Exhibitions of photographs include those at Museum of…
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Full text Article Avedon, Richard

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US photographer. A fashion photographer with Harper's Bazaar magazine in New York City from the mid-1940s, he moved to Vogue in 1965. He later became the highest-paid fashion and advertising photographer in the world. He became associated with the New Yorker in 1993. Using large-format cameras, his…
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Full text Article Avedon, Richard

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1923–2004, American photographer, b. New York City. Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he studied philosophy at Columbia, served in the photographic section of the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II, then studied photography at the New School. As a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar…
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Full text Article Avedon, Richard

From World of Art: The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers
Born in New York, USA. Avedon’s philosophy studies at Columbia University were interrupted in 1942, when he was assigned for two years to the US Merchant Marine’s photography branch, where he took pictures of personnel. In 1944, back in civilian life, he began to study photography at New York’s New…
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Full text Article Avedon Richard

From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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Full text Article Avedon, Richard

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Full text Article Richard Avedon (1923–2004)

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Full text Article Snow, Carmel

From World of Art: The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers
Born Carmel White in Dublin, Ireland. In the 1890s, shortly after the death of Snow’s father, Snow’s mother moved the family to New York, where she opened a dressmaking establishment in Manhattan. After studying in Brussels and New York, Snow joined the family business. In 1921 she became a fashion…
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