Quote of the day
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Richard Avedon
Born: May 15, 1923
Died: October 1, 2004 (aged 81)
Bio: Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".
Known for:
- Richard Avedon Portraits (2002)
- An autobiography (1993)
- The sixties (1999)
- Evidence, 1944-1994 (1994)
- Performance