Richard Avedon

Enough Of Avedon?

Alexander Adler | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Photography, Chelsea Galleries, New York Arts, Richard Avedon, Gagosian, Chelsea, Larry Gagosian, New York, David Adjaye, Arts News
Alexander Adler

Known as one of the 20th century's leading fashion photographers and portraitists, Richard Avedon retained an uncanny ability to garner quite unique, sublimely frank expressions from his subjects.

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Lillian Bassman's Fashion Dreams (PHOTOS)

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Photography, Fashion Photography, Video, Bergamot Station, Lillian Bassman, Harper's Bazaar, Los Angeles Exhibition, Richard Avedon, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Bassman, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Arts News

Lillian Bassman was ranked among photography legends like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn because of her ability to blend commercial and artistic techn...

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Gary Susman

25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Funny Face'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Stanley Donen, Video, Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Fred Astaire, Movie News, George Gershwin, Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face, Kay Thompson, Entertainment News

"Funny Face" shouldn't have worked. It was a musical with a borrowed score, based on a stage play its author had failed to sell, with a leading man pa...

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Life and Death in Art

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Art, Jim Hodges, Hannah Wilke, Grief, Richard Avedon, Adam Gopnick, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, A-Day-Without-Art, Art and Grief, Aaa Bronson, Larry Sultn, Mortality, Arts News
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

In times of grief, I seek solace with art. I hope that in my role as director of a museum of contemporary art, I am able to play some small role in facilitating an experience that might provide solace for others.

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Salvador Dali's Favorite Supermodel

Ben Arogundade | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Black Models, William Claxton, Kate Moss, Donyale Luna, Diana Vreeland, Lucien Freud, Salvador Dali, Paco-Rabanne-Dress, Vogue Magazine, Helmut Newton, African American Women, Jourdan Dunn, Andy Warhol, Art, Harper's Bazaar, Federico Fellini, Paco Rabanne, Black Beauty, Richard Avedon, African American Beauty, Damien Hirst, African Americans, First Black Supermodel, Hair & Beauty, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Black Voices News
Ben Arogundade

The renowned surrealist painter Salvador Dali's meeting with seminal African-American supermodel, Donyale Luna, at his hideaway in the Spanish fishing village of Cadaqués, Catalonia in 1966 marked an amazing moment where art and beauty collide.

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I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19)

Bill Bush | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles Art Scene, Santa Monica Auction, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Feminist Studio Workshop, George Condon, Shana Nys Dambrot, Richard Avedon, Miles Davis, Art Auctions, Annie Lapin, La Around Town, La Arts, Arts News
Bill Bush

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PHOTOS: The Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold

buzzfeed.com | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Photography, Mapplethorpe, Edward Steichen, Peter Lik, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Warhol, Buzzfeed, Dmitry Medvedev, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andreas Gursky, Richard Avedon, Alfred Stieglitz, Le Gray, Atget, Edward Weston, De Prangey, Arts News

A few days ago, Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96 sold for a whopping $3,890,500. Here's a list of the most expensive pictures ever sold, which you can vie...

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Writing With Twyla Tharp: I Collaborated With A Genius -- And Survived

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Twyla Tharp, Collaboration, Ballet, Richard Avedon, Dance, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

When you're in a room with Twyla Tharp, it's hard to notice anything else. As her dancers know, a "very nice" from Tharp is a bit more meaningful than it is from almost anyone else.

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