When the fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004) drove into the American West in 1979, he left behind ...

Though Richard Avedon started his career as a fashion photographer, he later became known for his unflinching eye. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images What obligation does a portrait photographer have to their ...

In Richard Avedon’s over 60-year career behind the camera, he became the pre-eminent fashion photographer and then one of the most famous photographic portraitist in the world. More than 150 prominent ...

This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens. By Leah Greenblatt With photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern and others, the veteran ...

The head of the customarily reserved Richard Avedon Foundation has blasted a new book on the photographer by Avedon’s former business partner Norma Stevens. Martin writes on the foundation’s Web site ...

More than ever, we live in the “society of the spectacle” that Guy Debord theorised in 1967. Bourgeois commodification is augmented by reducing reality to a shallow image of itself. However, the ...

'Avedon: Something Personal' by Norma Stevens and Steven M. L. Aronson A biography of the legendary fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon is due for international release in November, the ...

When he was still only in his 30s, the influential and iconic photographer Richard Avedon provided the inspiration for Fred Astaire’s character, Dick Avery, in the 1957 movie “Funny Face.” In fact, ...

That’s the question that Anne Breckenridge Barrett, director of the Center for Creative Photography, asks herself when she views Richard Avedon’s 1957 portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

A new book on Richard Avedon claims that the iconic photographer carried on a “decade-long secret affair with director Mike Nichols,” we hear. The two have only been reported as great friends 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 ...