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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
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