November at the Center for Creative Photography Oct 30, 2009
Prints by some of the greatest portraitists and photographic image-makers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century are included: Southworth and Hawes, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Yousuf Karsh and Richard Avedon. Photo News. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Irving Penn, 92; his sparse, lustrous portraits revealed Oct 8, 2009
Mr. Penn s great contemporary, and sole peer, Richard Avedon, opened up fashion, placing it in natural settings far removed from the studio. Mr. Penn placed it in a stripped-down world of his own making, almost abstract in its rigorous simplicity. (Boston Globe)
Photographer stirs an awed audience Sep 30, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO -- It would be entirely too much of a gimmick for a world-renowned museum, but imagine this: When you exited the expansive Richard Avedon photography show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a visitor could be blinded by a gauntlet of papparazi flash bulbs. Can't you see it. (Fresno Bee)
'Design Above All': small spaces, big ideas Sep 21, 2009
The unit is filled with the couple's black-and-white photography collection - including works by Richard Avedon and Vik Muniz - and the muted color scheme is a nod to Adams, who believed that saturated gray provided the best backdrop for black-and-white photos. Highlights: Michael McEwen's mica pendant lighting fixture pairs dramatically with a Berman Rosetti dining table and built-in banquette. (San Francisco Chronicle)
PROFILE: Bill and Carol Seale - Trading spaces Sep 5, 2009
On Sunday afternoon, around 2:30, we decided to walk over to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and check out the new the Richard Avedon exhibit. We wouldn't have done that before. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
High and Low Relief Aug 17, 2009
Richard Avedon in California, and more events involving New Yorker contributors. 00004000. (New Yorker)
Susan Hiller: 'The J. Street Project' Aug 9, 2009
It includes several portraits by Richard Avedon, whose work is also on view in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's concurrent retrospective, and several little-known images by Helen Levitt and Diane Arbus. But the real diversion here lies as much in discerning the undeclared logic of Fraenkel's arrangement of the pictures as in individual pieces. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Wilder Women Aug 3, 2009
Rose and Laura Wilder and the Little House stories : The New Yorker. Bulletin, Fremont Older, John Miller, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder , Biographies, Pamela Smith Hill, Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Life , Pioneers, Saturday Evening Post, (Pres. (New Yorker)
Joan Acocella: Should we hate Judas Iscariot? Jul 29, 2009
Richard Avedon in San Francisco, and more events involving New Yorker contributors. newsletter sign-up. (New Yorker)
Edward Steichen exhibits showcase breadth of photographer’s career Jul 19, 2009
Steichen s fashion photography never transcends the genre, as does the work of Penn and Richard Avedon at their best. He was a technician of glamour, not an artist. (Boston Globe)
Widening the view Jul 12, 2009
Richard Avedon show opens at SFMOMA. Article:Richard Avedon show opens at SFMOMA:/c/a/2009/07/10/DDBJ18K277 ... DTL Article:Richard Avedon show opens at SFMOMA:/c/a/2009/07/10/DDBJ18K277. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Richard Avedon show opens at SFMOMA Jul 12, 2009
Why do I think of MTV when I see the work of Richard Avedon ... For proof see "Richard Avedon: Photographs, 1946-2004," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ... Richard Avedon: Photographs, 1946-2004: Through Nov. 29. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Richard Avedon : Photographs 1946 to 2004 Jul 9, 2009
As a highlight of its summer exhibitions schedule, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present Richard Avedon: Photographs 19462004, on view from July 11 through November 29, 2009 ... The exhibition was organized by Helle Crenzien for The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, in cooperation with The Richard Avedon Foundation ... Beginning with one of Avedon's early street photographs (taken in Rome in 1946) and ending with his portrait of pop musician Bjrk (made... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Read Indepth Article Jul 9, 2009
Richard Avedon : Photographs 1946 to 2004 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - absolutearts ... "Richard Avedon : Photographs 1946 to 2004" 2009-07-11 until 2009-11-29 San Francisco, CA, USA ... As a highlight of its summer exhibitions schedule, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present Richard Avedon: Photographs 19462004, on view from July 11 through November 29, 2009. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Reviews of ‘The Model as Muse’ and ‘Avedon Fashion’ Jul 9, 2009
Coinciding, and in some ways overlapping, with the Met show is a superb exhibition of Richard Avedon s fashion photographs, Avedon Fashion, at the nearby International Center for Photography. The earliest works are from the 1940s and 50s, the period generally known as the Golden Age of Haute Couture, and they remind us that the creativity of great photographers like Avedon, Irving Penn, and - later - William Klein, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, and Steven Meisel played as important a role in... (Boston Globe)
ARTShot by Richard Avedon Jul 4, 2009
ART / Shot by Richard Avedon / Portrait subjects remember a very focused artisan behind the lens ... Article:ART / Shot by Richard Avedon / Portrait subjects rememb:/c/a/2009/07/02/DDLL1890GJ.DTL Article:ART / Shot by Richard Avedon / Portrait subjects rememb:/c/a/2009/07/02/DDLL1890GJ.DTL advertisement ... ART Shot by Richard Avedon. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Downturn may lend fuel to art of sustainable fashion Jun 4, 2009
Across town, the International Center of Photography is paying homage to the late Vogue photographer Richard Avedon in the largest retrospective of his work since 1978. Both shows are lavish, flawlessly curated affairs, but have a desperate air of clinging to an opulent, devil-may-care period in fashion that no longer exists. (Boston Globe)
Joan Acocella: Natalia Osipova breaks out. Jun 1, 2009
Russian Soul: Critic's Notebook: The New Yorker (New Yorker)
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A selection of photographs by Richard Avedon. A series of drawings by Francesco Clemente. (New Yorker)
Henry VIII reigns supreme May 17, 2009
"Avedon Fashion 1944-2000": Richard Avedon is among the greatest of fashion photographers. Surely, no one else did as much to revolutionize the genre, bringing models out into the real world and lending an energy and irreverence to fashion not previously seen. (Boston Globe)
MSA art students recognized nationally May 12, 2009
Stevens and Anderson join the ranks of some of our country's most revered artists and writers who have received Scholastic Art ng Awards in the past, including Robert Redford, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, John Lithgow, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Otterness, Philip Pearlstein, Zac Posen, Sylvia Plath, Richard Avedon and Robert Indiana. The Daily Leader 2009. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
* Strike a pose May 6, 2009
the curator Kohle Yohannan said last week, referring to a celebrated Richard Avedon photograph of 1955 that depicted the attenuated mannequin Dovima (nee Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba) wearing a Christian Dior sheath and sandwiched between monumental pachyderms. One could just as easily ask what Dovima With Elephants would have been without the elephants, of course, but then 3-tonne pachyderms dont rate the cultural attention devoted to beautiful clothes-hangers who weigh 50kg. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
TV by design Mar 9, 2009
Artists like Richard Avedon, Paul Strand, Feliks Topolski and Andy Warhol were also engaged on freelance projects. The result was a reinvention of vaudeville traditions into light entertainment shows presented in a style that Spigel dubs "vaudeo-modernity." The jazz musicians Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie were particularly innovative in rejecting the rituals of traditional minstrel spectaculars in favor of a black modernist aesthetic of Constructivist-inspired graphics and exaggerated... (International Herald Tribune)
Enough about me. Like my portrait? Feb 19, 2009
And it wasn't as if he couldn't bear to look at his own face: Schumacher had modeled for several photographers, including Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber, and some of the results line the walls of his home. His bedroom is cluttered with snapshots of himself with the stars of movies he has directed, including Sandra Bullock, Colin Farrell and Jim Carrey. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Students find their niche as artists Feb 8, 2009
During the group's recent induction ceremony, President Jennie Nguyen expressed hers with a nod to highly regarded photographer Richard Avedon. Nguyen told classmates and guests her immersion in art "has given me a feeling of endowment and worth" and referenced Avedon's observation: "If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up." "My passion of photography is not... (Ambler Gazette, PA)
