Richard Avedon's Portrait Photography

For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters made him one of the premier American portrait photographers. At the time of his death in 2004, 83 year-old Richard Avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer. 



Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Vogue, 1981
(娜斯塔西娅.金丝姬，主演《苔丝》，导演：罗曼.波兰斯基)


Rudolf Nureyev
前苏联，后入法国籍，伟大的芭蕾舞演员，编舞并主演的《天鹅湖》百看不厌。


Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, 1957


Bridget Bardot, 1959
法国性感明星，碧姬.芭朵


The Beatles


O'hara
 

Dorothy Horan, best known as Dovima, with elephants, 1955
 

Roberto Lopez, oil field worker, Lyons, Texas, 1980


Ronald Fischer, beekeeper, Davis, California, 1981
 

Vogue