Richard Avedon helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture by working as a photographer for Vouge.

Avedon pushed the boundaries of fashion photography with surreal and often controversial pictures which contained violence, nudity and death.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avedon had his own personal projects which consisted of taking illuminating portraits of leading cultural and political figures.

 

Avedons work was the driving force behind photography's emergence as a legitimate art form. His photographs of his terminally ill father were featured at the Museum of Modern Art.