Later on, you’ll find this contemplative portrait, which Avedon captured on the same day in 1957.
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When you walk into the gallery to see “Avedon 100,” you encounter a mural of Marilyn Monroe dancing across the frame - “the glamorous, fabulous, beautiful movie star that we know,” Vander Weg says. Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957.“The photograph that we have in the exhibition is the largest size at which he printed it,” Vander Weg adds. This famous Harper’s Bazaar shoot stars the Fifties supermodel Dovima (born Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba) posing casually with a few pachyderms. “The photographs that Avedon was taking at the time were so innovative,” Vander Weg says. Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955.“He was so good at extracting the essence of a human in a photograph,” Vander Weg says.
Louis Armstrong practically vibrates off the print in this, an early example of the black-and-white portrait style that Avedon would become most known for. Louis Armstrong, musician, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, May 3, 1955.“It’s a quintessential Paris fashion photograph.” “He did a lot of really innovative work in Paris when he did not have a studio to work out of, and instead was working on the street, working with models in the wild, so to speak,” Vander Weg says. This shot for Harper’s Bazaar comes from Avedon’s early years as a fashion photographer. Image Credit: Richard Avedon/© The Richard Avedon Foundation Shoe by Perugia, Place du Trocadéro, Paris, August 1948.And also, they hoped that they were going to look their best.”
“And it was because it was an honor to be photographed by Richard Avedon. “People have asked us, ‘How did he get these people to sit for him?’” says Vander Weg. Seeing the images all together, reflected through a lens of celebrity that he helped create all those decades ago, means more than seeing any one of them reproduced on a screen. And it shows that Avedon’s work still has the ability to stop us in our tracks. The exhibition has been a huge hit, and its run was recently extended to July 7 it also forms the basis for a new book.
“Then we had to cut it off, because we didn’t have any more space left in the gallery.” “At first we thought, 100th birthday, 100 individuals, and then there was such robust response that we ended up with 158 people and 147 artworks,” says Gagosian senior director Kara Vander Weg. They asked a wide group of friends, family, and A-list figures from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and culture to select images from Avedon’s catalog: People like Chloe Sevigny, Elton John, Naomi Campbell, Donatella Versace, Hillary Clinton, Spike Lee, and Kim Kardashian all took part in the project. All of which presents a challenge for anyone mounting a retrospective of his work: Is there a way for us to see such very famous images of extremely famous people with fresh eyes?įor “Avedon 100,” which opened last month at Gagosian gallery in New York to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the photographer’s birth, the curators answered that question by crowd-sourcing. Avedon, who died in 2004, landed his photos in the pages of magazines like Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar and in the collections of modern-art museums alike. His photographic portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in 20th-century pop culture - the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, and many more - made him a widely celebrated artist in his own right. The word “iconic” gets thrown around a lot these days, but if there’s anyone whose work it applies to without question, it’s Richard Avedon.
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