Perhaps no one captured cultural life post-World War II more vividly than Richard Avedon. From pop icons to artists to heads of state, being photographed by Avedon meant you were someone. There must ...

“Dick had put up this huge bubble-jet poster of a sequence of pictures he’d taken of Marilyn in a tight sequined dress,” photographer Tim Walker once wrote of a photoshoot that friend and colleague, ...

The images of the late photographer Richard Avedon have remained iconic long after he – and some of his subjects – died. For nearly 60 years, Avedon’s work graced the pages of publications such as ...

Avedon. Only one name was ever necessary. On Dec. 9, “(re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946–1965” will debut at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Twenty ...

MILAN (Reuters) - An exhibition of the work of photographer Richard Avedon bursts into colour to celebrate his collaboration with fashion design house Versace as his renowned black-and-white portraits ...

With photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern and others, the veteran editor created some of the most indelible images of modern fashion. By Penelope Green Late in Ms. Monroe’s life, ...

It is signature Avedon. Dramatic but playful, an image shot on a hot summer day in 1955 at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris. An exhibition-size print of the famous picture, "Dovima with elephants," will be ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in the May, 1957 issue of Town & Country. “A born beauty.” Those words, always meant as a compliment, have never seemed to be one to me. As a photographer, I have ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Senf, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) What obligation does a portrait ...