Richard Avedon - wonder boy of fashion photography

The New York Times:  "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."

Richard Avedon (15.05.1923 - 1.10.2004)

Richard Avedon has taken some of the greatest celebrity photographs in the 20th century. Avedon was born in 1923 and began working as a department store photographer in 1944. In 1945, he began working for Harper’s Bazaar, taking photographs of Andy Warhol, Jacques Cousteau, Brigitte Bardot and Buster Keaton throughout his career there.

Avedon also worked for Vogue, Look and The New Yorker during his storied career. Also he  make fashion advertisement photograph series  for Gianni Versace, starting from the spring/summer campaign 1980. He also photographed the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign featuring a fifteen year old Brooke Shields.
Avedon is known for his minimalistic photographs of celebrities and public figures, typically in front of ordinary backgrounds. In 1959, Avedon worked alongside Truman Capote on a book documenting the most important people of the 20th century. Richard Avedon was voted by Popular Photography magazine as one of the ten greatest photographers in the world.

Some photography of Richard Avedon: