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HEAD ON.(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
The first image in the new show of Richard Avedon photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the picture that visitors will come upon as they enter, is not just the earliest, dating from 1947; it is also the happiest. A small Sicilian boy in a pale cap, his jacket buttoned tight across his chest like the trademark of a vaudeville patsy, stands and delivers his best grin. There is something formal--not fixed, but maybe too decorous for mere cheek--in the width of his smile, and you notice the hands clamped firmly to his sides. It is unlikely that he has been ordered to radiate pleasure (Avedon is not his uncle, or a fearsome aunt, and this is no family snap), but that ...
- Shutter bugs. (Scene).(includes, Metropolitan Museum of Art to exhibit Richard...
- Magazine article from: WWD Greene, Joshua September 17, 2002 700+ words
...photographer Richard Avedon's career is...fall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where...portraits of Avedon's father shortly...subjects. Richard Avedon: Portraits...Jan. 5, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000...
- Many faces, one portrait; Richard Avedon has photographed hundreds. But the...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 4, 2002 700+ words
...intense as people," Richard Avedon says in the catalog for an...his photographs. "Richard Avedon: Portraits" at the Metropolitan Museum until Jan. 5, contains 180...Henri Cartier-Bresson nailed Avedon's gift with a backhanded...
- OBITUARY: ICONIC IMAGE MAKER RICHARD AVEDON.(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: WWD October 4, 2004 700+ words
...remembered the 81 year-old Avedon, who died Friday in San Antonio...there's some influence of Avedon," said Mia Fineman, who...most recent exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Maria Morris Hambourg...complemented the picture." Avedon also worked closely with Polly...
- The West revisted: LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER AVEDON DOCUMENTED THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) February 19, 2007 700+ words
...Wykes Feb. 19--Richard Avedon was perfectly at home in the...up. It was blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose galleries of...man. By the late 1970s, Avedon had seen life was larger...killed tens of thousands. But Avedon was driven to something more...
- Richard Avedon.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety October 4, 2004 700+ words
...Campbell and Cindy Crawford. But Avedon went in another direction...Weekly review once noted, Avedon helped create the cachet of...Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and...Washington, D.C., staged major Avedon retrospectives, and his list...
- Center for Creative Photography acquires Richard Avedon Archive. (University of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 10, 1989 700+ words
...portrait is not a likeness," Avedon has said, "The moment an...Portraits" (1976), "Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977...Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Amon Carter...exhibition, "Jacob Israel Avedon," from Feb. 10 through...
- Avedon's eye. (Connoisseur's World).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Tuchman, Phyllis May 1, 2002 700+ words
...among others) that Avedon took over the course...on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Avedon, now seventy...surprised by the way Avedon's large murals...roiled up again. Metropolitan Museum of Art; 212...
- Avedon portraits celebrated in Met exhibit. (New York).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art Business News October 1, 2002 700+ words
Richard Avedon, a photographer known...new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Richard Avedon: Portraits" spans...SHOW FACTS "Richard Avedon: Portraits" Though Jan 5, 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Address: 1000...
