Richard Avedon Foundation Archive
May 23, 2009 at 8:24 pm | In Art History, Artist, Photography, Website | Leave a CommentTags: Photography, Portraiture, Richard Avedon
Check out the Richard Avendon Foundation archive. If you don’t know who he is you have probably seen his work. I recommend the series “In the American West” as it is quite well known but also very moving. There is a certain amount of leveling in his pictures. The stark white background removes context and time leaving only the person in the image and you the viewer. Something unifying happens when you are left with nothing but the person removed from any kind of tangible place. The portrait acts like a mirror, and in Avedon’s work you are forced to acknowledge yourself on some level as the humanity of the subject is reflected back at your own.
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