MATTE FINAL

Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective
of the photographers work.
Richard Avedon: A Portrait of an Artist
What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot,
Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy
Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They
were a few of the many personalities caught on film
by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than
fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the
pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark
imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters
has made him one of the premier American
portrait photographers.
Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped
out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s
photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he
found a job as a photographer in a department store.
Within two years he had been “found” by an art director
at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work
for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of
other magazines. During the early years, Avedon
made his living primarily through work in advertising.
His real passion, however, was the portrait and its
ability to express the essence of its subject.