Richard Avedon - Celebrated and Ignored

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During a career of nearly nearly sixty years, Richard Avedon managed to blur the lines between different genres of photography as he delved into fashion, reportage and portraiture. He covered an enormous breadth of subject matter. He broke the stiff formal mode of fashion photography and created images that were alive and reflected the mood of the times. He also helped to cement photography’s status as a legitimate contemporary art form.
You can recognize an Avedon photograph when you see it. In his portraiture he managed to produce a stripped down aesthetic that draws the viewer towards the subject’s expression.
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[@LloydSpencer]

Excellent video. Avedon rescued Lartigue from being completely forgotten and formed a close friendship with him. I think you might have mentioned the intense rivalry with Irving Penn, and their differences and debates about portraiture, which probably influenced the late style of Avedon.

[@PhotoConversations]

Hi I had to edit my video, so Penn got left behind. Thanks.

[@heinzhagenbucher4714]

Yes, as always enjoyed your introduction to this great photographer.
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on him. 🙏🙏🙏

[@PhotoConversations]

Thanks Heinz

[@heinzhagenbucher4714]

Just love his work.

[@thomaseriksson6256]

Thank you for the lecture. It’s only a few artist/photographers that survive their time on the Earth. Often they can be discovered later for a new generation.

[@jamesgamer4753]

These photographic conversations are all excellent. Thanks for sharing wealth of knowledge with us.

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Thanks James

[@sempringham3868]

This is a first-class and inspiring series. Thank you.

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Thanks Sam

[@diannevandermerwe436]

Thanks Graeme. I’m learning much from your excellent insights and of course I remember his fashion photography as it was during my youth.

[@steveh1273]

Thank you for an insightful look at Avedon.

[@guusbeeld]

I surely did enjoyed it...

[@LloydSpencer]

Excellent video about one of the true greats. I have been looking through my copy of “Avedon’s France” (great 800pp book, $15 on Amazon) and, because I am less familiar with most of the ‘personalities’ I can see what a superb portraitist he was. Also throughout a man of integrity, constantly creative.

[@bowenisland100]

Great work.....glad you gave us a deeper look.

[@richardlewis8130]

Hi Graeme, as a relatively new photographer I really like your CZcams channel. There are few channels with real photographers talking about the work of others. Please discuss Ernst Haas sometime too, I like his work a lot. And Eugene Smith. Greetings from Boston, hope to visit S. Africa some day...

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Hi Richard Thanks for your feedback.

[@iainmc9859]

I love his magazine work, his sense of fluid style. I simply think he'd rejected this as falsity by the time of 'The Americans' and his later portraits, which would be legitimate but for me is a bit Brechtian in its bleakness.

[@robertbrooks5888]

His book "In the American West" fetches a high price. His use of a plain white background and an 8x10 really appeals to me and I may give it a go someday.

[@blueboy4244]

17,000 sheets of 8x10 film he allegedly shot for that book .. at what? 8 bucks a pop now a days