![]() And it was those experimental portraits, more than his groundbreaking fashion work, that ultimately won Avedon the plaudits which he so craved from art galleries and museums. ![]() He transformed notions of style, celebrity, women’s fashion, and photography itself.īut around 1969, after nearly two decades of literally dominating the covers and glossy pages of leading fashion magazines, Avedon turned abruptly and increasingly to innovative forms of photographic portraiture-often large, minimalist, and unsparing in detail. Following a meteoric rise as a young fashion photographer at Harper’s Bazaar in the late 1940s, and later at Vogue and other magazines, the intensely driven Avedon glided through mid-century New York high society with the glamorous authority and savoir faire of a movie star. Among photographers, few were more conspicuously famous or notoriously private than Richard Avedon (1923–2004). The masks that ensure their legends often obscure their tortured private lives. ![]() Often, the individuals who are best known and most public are, in fact, the least knowable and most inscrutable. ![]()
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