Installation view, photo by Mike Bruce
Installation view Photo by Mike Bruce
Installation view Photo by Mike Bruce
Installation view Photo by Mike Bruce
Richard Avedon, Malgosia Bela and Gisele Bundchen, dress by Dior Couture, New York City, March 2000, 2001
Gelatin silver print, 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm), edition of 15
© The Richard Avedon Foundation
Richard Avedon, Jean Shrimpton, evening dress by Cardin, Paris, January 1970, 1981
Gelatin silver print, 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm), edition of 50
© The Richard Avedon Foundation
Richard Avedon, Veruschka, Dress by Bill Blass, New York, January 1967, 1981
Gelatin silver print, 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm), edition of 50
© The Richard Avedon Foundation
Preview: Thursday, September 5th, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
I've worked out of a series of nos. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these nos force me to the “yes.” I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in, and the thing that happens between us.
—Richard Avedon
Gagosian London is pleased to announce “Avedon: Women,” a selection of photographs from The Richard Avedon Foundation. “Avedon: Women” will culminate in a second, career-spanning exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills in November 2013.
Avedon’s fashion images never conformed to the prevailing standard of models posed without emotion, aloof from the camera, and seemingly devoid of personality. Instead, he set models in action, provoking them to appear questioning, authoritative, unruly, vivacious, extroverted, and confidently alive. Keenly aware of the melancholy inherent in the fleeting nature of great beauty, his photographs crystallized transient moments of grace.
Jake Skeets reflects on Richard Avedon’s series In the American West, focusing on the portrait of his uncle, Benson James.
The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.
In celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedon’s birth, more than 150 artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and representatives of the fashion world were asked to select a photograph by Avedon for an exhibition at Gagosian, New York, and to elaborate on the ways in which image and artist have affected them. We present a sampling of these images and writings.
Wyatt Allgeier discusses the 1984 Arion Press edition of John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, featuring prints by Richard Avedon, Alex Katz, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and more.
Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson sits down with Claude Picasso to discuss Claude’s photography, his enjoyment of vintage car racing, and the future of scholarship related to his father, Pablo Picasso.
