Richard Avedon
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Avedon, Richard (15 March 1923 - 1 October 2004)
A master fashion and portrait photographer, Avedon was voted “one of the world’s ten greatest photographers” by Popular Photography in 1958, received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Council of Fashion Designers of American in 1989, the International Photography Prize of the Erma and Victor Hasselblad Foundation New York in 1991, and the Humanitarian Award of the Mental Health Association in 1996. New York City-born, he studied with Alexey Brodovitch at the Design Laboratory, New School for Social Research, 1944-1950.
He has been a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar, Theatre Arts, The New Yorker, and Vogue.
His entry in Who’s Who in America lists numerous works that contain his photography and places in which his work has been shown. In a 1996 television profile, Avedon stated that although he is Jewish and has had a “religious experience” of some sort, he is a total agnostic.
