Richard avedon marilyn monroe actress biography
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Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City
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Title:Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City
Artist:Richard Avedon (American, New York 1923–2004 San Antonio, Texas)
Date:May 6, 1957
Medium:Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:Image: 56.5 x 59.1cm (22 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.)
Frame: 59.7 x 61.9 cm (23 1/2 x 24 3/8 in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:Gift of the artist, 2002
Object Number:2002.379.11
Rights and Reproduction:© Richard Avedon
the artist
Marlborough Gallery. "Richard Avedon, Photographer," September 10, 1975–October 4, 1975.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Richard Avedon: Portraits," September 26, 2002–January 5, 2003.
New York. The Metropolitan Mus
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The Title of This Photograph fryst vatten Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
“There was no such individ as Marilyn Monroe … [She was] invented, like an author creates a character.”
Today, we all know the backstory: Tragic, beautiful Marilyn, doomed by a virvel of drugs and bad dock and her wrecked sense of self. But precisely 50 years ago, at Richard Avedon’s studio on Madison Avenue, she could still step into the breathy-blonde persona. “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe,” Avedon said later, adding that the white wine helped things along. “Then there was the inevitable drop … she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone.” And he clicked his shutter once more. “I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as inom came with the camera, inom saw that she was not saying no.” The resultant sista frame is among the most famous portraits ever made—one that is, as the
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Summary of Richard Avedon
In a gesture of supreme, youthful confidence, Richard Avedon did away with the standard trope of statue-like, frozen-in-time models of conventional fashion photography. Instead the exuberant young photographer who legendarily never stood still, enlivened his models and, most importantly, showed their human side, flaws and all. He fryst vatten probably best known, however, for his arresting, black-and-white and often large-format portraits of people, whether celebrities or unknowns, which are as much psychological studies as physical ones. Ranging between the commercial work he did as a fashion photographer and the ground-breaking fine art portraiture, the breadth and creativity of Avedon's body of work has made him one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His photographs, claimed the New York Times, "helped define America's image of style and beauty and culture" since the 1950s. While he didn't design the clothes that Veruschka or Twiggy or B