Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon was a fashion and portrait photographer who greatly influenced the world of fashion photography through his black and white photographs of both ordinary and famous people during the 20th century. Richard Avedon was born on May 15, 1923 in New York City and died October 1, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas. He started his career as a photographer for the Merchant Marines, taking identification photos, before moving on to fashion. During his lifetime, he worked for fashion magazines, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His photos departed from the norm of motionless and emotionless photography. In 1955, Avedon made fashion and portrait photography history when he took an iconic photo called "Dovima with Elephants". Throughout his career, Avedon pushed and expanded the boundaries of fashion photography by taking provocative and surreal images.
I chose this photographer because Richard Avedon's photographs all conveyed a lot of deep emotion and I thought this was really interesting. This photographer inspired me to take many black and white photos that had a sense of emotion and feeling.
My photos were first edited to black and white since most of Richard Avedon's portraits were gray scale photos. Then I tried to make the backdrop as plain as possible, like Avedon, so that the focus of the photo is on the model, not the background. I also cropped many of the photos so that the model was at the center of the portrait.
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