Richard Avedon was born in 1923 and worked as a portrait and fashion photographer from 1944. By 1946 Avedon had set up his own photography studio.

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and worked as a portrait and fashion photographer from 1944. By 1946
Avedon had set up his own photography studio, from which he created
images that were published in Vogue, Life and Harper’s Bazaar.
Richard Avedon was born in 1923

3. His images captured the per-
sonality and emotion of the
subject, and as a result of his
powerful portraits Avedon’s
photographs graced the covers
of almost 150 issues of Vogue.
Avedon followed the legendary
Fashion Editor, Diana Vreeland,
when she moved from Harp-
er’s Bazaar to Vogue in 1962.
Starting as a staff photogra-
pher, Avedon became the
magazine’s lead photographer
from 1973 until 1988, when
Anna Wintour joined the staff
as editor in chief.
During his career, Avedon shot
several well-known and loved
fashion campaigns, includ-
ing a Calvin Klein campaign
that featured a young Brooke
Shields; ‘The Most Unforget-
table Woman’ campaign
by Revlon; and the spring/
summer 1980s campaign for
Gianni Versace.
Avedon is also well-known for
his series of studio portraits, in
which he would capture the
faces of politicians, civil rights
workers and cultural dissi-
dents. Furthermore, Avedon
began to photograph patients
in mental hospitals and pro-
testers of the Vietnam War, as
well as documenting the fall
of the Berlin Wall.

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