His landmark book of portraiture, “In the American West,” featured everyday Americans, but he also focused his lens on the elite, photographing icons of fashion and film, including Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Audrey Hepburn.Ī new book, “ Avedon: Behind the Scenes 1964 – 1980,” offers a rare, extended portrait of the master of portraiture himself, who helped usher in fashion’s explosive period of creativity in the mid-20th century with iconic editorials for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. He wielded a certain sorcery with his camera, revealing a person’s interior life with little more than a stark white backdrop and an incisive eye. It is often said that American fashion photographer Richard Avedon captured the very souls of his subjects in his photos.
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