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A Generation of Genius
Richard Avedon has photographed everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Ezra
Pound. Having also snapped the likes of Truman Capote, Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Andy Warhol, the acclaimed photographer has captured
those that shaped history.
An exhibition on Avedon’s work, Richard Avedon: Portraits, will be on view
through January 2003, at The Tisch Galleries in New York City. The show
includes 180 portraits and has been called a “collective portrait of America
in the second half of the 20th century”.
The curator in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of
Photographs, Maria Morris Hambourg, who organised the exhibition, said
that Avedon has “produced an extended meditation on life, death, art and
identity”. He has “become our poet of portraiture”.
For more information on the exhibition Richard Avedon: Portraits
call (+1) 212 535-7710 or log on to www.metmuseum.org
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