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RICHARD AVEDON AT THE JEU DE PAUME IN PARIS
02 July 2008
Catégorie : EXHIBITION
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The Jeu de Paume presents the first major retrospective of Richard Avedon's work in France since his death in 2004. The exhibition held between July 1 - September 28, 2008 brings together some 250 photographs spanning his entire career, including a large selection of prints from his famous In the American West series.
Richard Avedon, Photographs 1946 - 2004 Richard Avedon, fashion photographer
In 1945, Richard Avedon started working for Harper's Bazaar, for which he soon became head photographer – a position he kept until 1966, when he moved to Vogue.
His lively and passionate eye transformed fashion photography from
something monotonous and stiff to something dynamic and entirely
innovative for its times, by emphasizing movement and capturing his
models in public spaces such as parks, nightclubs and shops. Avedon set
out to recreate everyday and social situations, and to give the
impression that his photographs were taken spontaneously.
Richard Avedon, portraitist
Richard Avedon also made numerous portraits, radically transforming the
codes of genre, as did that other great American photographer, Irving
Penn.
But Avedon went even further than Penn. He shattered the iconic images
of the stars of show business, literature, the arts and the political
elite in the United States. His portraits show all the facets of his
models' personality, however great their mastery of the codes of
representation.
In the American West
Between 1979 and 1984, Avedon travelled across the western part of the
United States, which was suffering from the effects of a serious
economic recession. His idea was to bring outsiders and disadvantaged
people into the tradition of the portrait. All the photos in the In the American West
series were taken in broad daylight and outdoors, against a simple
white paper backdrop hung on the side of a truck. What resulted were
uncompromising images in which Avedon was able to depict the daily
struggle to survive and the decline of a system of values traditionally
associated with the
American West.
 New York
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The Jeu de Paume presents the first major retrospective of Richard Avedon's work in France since his death in 2004. The exhibition held between July 1 - September 28, 2008 brings together some 250 photographs spanning his entire career, including a large selection of prints from his famous In the American West series.
Richard Avedon, Photographs 1946 - 2004 Richard Avedon, fashion photographer
In 1945, Richard Avedon started working for Harper's Bazaar, for which he soon became head photographer – a position he kept until 1966, when he moved to Vogue.
His lively and passionate eye transformed fashion photography from
something monotonous and stiff to something dynamic and entirely
innovative for its times, by emphasizing movement and capturing his
models in public spaces such as parks, nightclubs and shops. Avedon set
out to recreate everyday and social situations, and to give the
impression that his photographs were taken spontaneously.
Richard Avedon, portraitist
Richard Avedon also made numerous portraits, radically transforming the
codes of genre, as did that other great American photographer, Irving
Penn.
But Avedon went even further than Penn. He shattered the iconic images
of the stars of show business, literature, the arts and the political
elite in the United States. His portraits show all the facets of his
models' personality, however great their mastery of the codes of
representation.
In the American West
Between 1979 and 1984, Avedon travelled across the western part of the
United States, which was suffering from the effects of a serious
economic recession. His idea was to bring outsiders and disadvantaged
people into the tradition of the portrait. All the photos in the In the American West
series were taken in broad daylight and outdoors, against a simple
white paper backdrop hung on the side of a truck. What resulted were
uncompromising images in which Avedon was able to depict the daily
struggle to survive and the decline of a system of values traditionally
associated with the
American West.
New York
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