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THE ART BOOK an alphabetical
reference guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors
from antiquity to the present day.
published by Phaidon
AMAZON.COMin USA
AMAZON.CO.UKin UK
American Masters - The Artists Richard Avedon / Alexander Calder / Robert Rauschenberg / Man Ray / Norman
Rockwell / Alfred Stieglitz
THE WORLD's GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS
RICHARD AVEDON
1923-
Avedon left school at age 17 to work as an errand-boy
for a small photographic business, serving in the Photography
Department of the US Merchant Marines between 1942 and 1944. He
was staff photographer for Harpers Bazaar from 1945 until 1965
when he went to Vogue, his fashion photography in the postwar
years had a great influence on fashion photography . A taste for
highly contrived lighting, pose, and camera angles in his fashion
photography, and in his portraits using eye-catching props and
placing sitters against a flat monochromatic backdrop. .
Related Photographers include: Bailey, Blumenfeld,
Dahl-Wolfe, Sief, Teller