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2004:

  1. A remembrance of photographer Richard Avedon
    A remembrance of photographer Richard Avedon

    with Richard Avedon on Oct 15, 2004

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    33 min
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2000:

  1. A conversation about Henri Cartier-Bresson
    A conversation about Henri Cartier-Bresson

    with Richard Avedon on Jul 6, 2000

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    50 min
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1999:

  1. An interview with Richard Avedon
    An interview with Richard Avedon

    with Richard Avedon on Nov 26, 1999

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    25 min
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  2. A conversation about photography and the 1960's
    A conversation about photography and the 1960's

    with Doon Arbus and Richard Avedon on Nov 11, 1999

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    16 min
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1996:

  1. An conversation about Richard Avedon
    An conversation about Richard Avedon

    with Helen Whitney and Richard Avedon on Jan 19, 1996

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    11 min
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1995:

  1. A conversation with Richard Avedon
    A conversation with Richard Avedon

    with Richard Avedon on Nov 1, 1995

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    10 min
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1993:

  1. An interview with Richard Avedon
    An interview with Richard Avedon

    with Richard Avedon on Oct 5, 1993

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    54 min
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Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004)was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine art.

In 1944, he began working as an advertising photographer for a department store, but was quickly discovered by Alexey Brodovitch, the art director for the fashion magazine “Harper’s Bazaar”. In 1946, Avedon had set up his own studio and began providing images for magazines including Vogue and Life. He soon became the chief photographer for “Harper’s Bazaar”. Avedon did not conform to the standard technique of taking fashion photographs, where models stood emotionless and seemingly indifferent to the camera. Instead, Avedon showed models full of emotion, smiling, laughing, and, many times, in action.

In 1966, Avedon left “Harper’s Bazaar” to work as a staff photographer for Vogue magazine. In addition to his continuing fashion work, Avedon began to branch out and photographed patients of mental hospitals, the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, protesters of the Vietnam War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. During this period Avedon also created two famous sets of portraits of The Beatles.

Avedon became the first staff photographer for “The New Yorker” in 1992. He has won many awards for his photography, including the International Center of Photography Master of Photography Award in 1993, the Prix Nadar in 1994 for his photobook “Evidence”, and the Royal Photographic Society 150th Anniversary Medal in 2003.

Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon