Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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