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Richard Avedon, portraitist extraordinaire, was on assignment for The New Yorker when he had a stroke and brain hemorraghe.
Here's THE LINK to the news in MSNBC. However, if you don't feel like it, here's the text:
Photographer Avedon
suffers stroke.
He was shooting a democracy essay for New Yorker.
Richard Avedon, 81, was the first staff photographer hired for the New Yorker, which for decades did not run photographs.
Updated: 4:56 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Famed portrait photographer Richard Avedon has suffered a brain hemorrhage while on assignment for the New Yorker magazine in Texas and has been hospitalized, a spokeswoman for the magazine said Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Perri Dorset said Avedon, 81, suffered the stroke Saturday while shooting an essay on democracy that was set to run shortly before the November U.S. presidential election.
His condition was guarded and Dorset said, “We’re waiting for more information.”
Her statements confirmed a report first published online in News Photographers Magazine, the bulletin of the National Press Photographers Association.
One of the most celebrated U.S. fashion and portrait photographers, Avedon was the first staff photographer ever hired for The New Yorker, a magazine that until editor Tina Brown took over in the 1990s traditionally did not run photographs.
Avedon’s photos, usually intimate, intense studies against a white backdrop, are often powerful statements of a person’s persona. Among his most famous photos are portraits of Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote.
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Sad day...
I saw his photos in Minneapolis the first time, and then New York. Great stuff...
Here's THE LINK to the news in MSNBC. However, if you don't feel like it, here's the text:
Photographer Avedon
suffers stroke.
He was shooting a democracy essay for New Yorker.
Richard Avedon, 81, was the first staff photographer hired for the New Yorker, which for decades did not run photographs.
Updated: 4:56 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Famed portrait photographer Richard Avedon has suffered a brain hemorrhage while on assignment for the New Yorker magazine in Texas and has been hospitalized, a spokeswoman for the magazine said Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Perri Dorset said Avedon, 81, suffered the stroke Saturday while shooting an essay on democracy that was set to run shortly before the November U.S. presidential election.
His condition was guarded and Dorset said, “We’re waiting for more information.”
Her statements confirmed a report first published online in News Photographers Magazine, the bulletin of the National Press Photographers Association.
One of the most celebrated U.S. fashion and portrait photographers, Avedon was the first staff photographer ever hired for The New Yorker, a magazine that until editor Tina Brown took over in the 1990s traditionally did not run photographs.
Avedon’s photos, usually intimate, intense studies against a white backdrop, are often powerful statements of a person’s persona. Among his most famous photos are portraits of Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote.
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Sad day...
I saw his photos in Minneapolis the first time, and then New York. Great stuff...
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Rich Silfver
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very sad indeed.
oftheherd
Veteran
Sad news. Hope he recovers well. Thanks for letting us know Francisco.
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Peter
Guest
Hope he gets back on his feet soon.
peter_n
Veteran
He died today. Terrible.
He has a wonderful portrait in this week's New Yorker magazine.
He has a wonderful portrait in this week's New Yorker magazine.
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Peter
Guest
Sad! I love his celebrity photos!
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wlewisiii
Guest
There is a good obit at www.nytimes.com. In it, this is as good a summation of his work as anything I can imagine:
"A portrait is not a likeness," Richard Avedon said at the time of "In the American West."The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
William
"A portrait is not a likeness," Richard Avedon said at the time of "In the American West."The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
William
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