What Richard Avedon Erases from His Photos 📸

Are all portrait photographs created equal?

Join Shawn Grenier (‪@Shawn.Grenier‬ ) for a deep dive into the work of Richard Avedon, an American photographer known for his distinctive portraits of celebrities, politicians and working-class people.

Motion Graphics/Editing: Gui Morilha
Research assistant: Amelia Smith

Produced in association with CBC Creator Network.

Sources:

Andy Grundberg, “Richard Avedon, the Eye of Fashion, Dies at 81,” New York Times Oct 2, 2004. https://americansuburbx.com/2010/09/theory-trials-and-documentary.html
Charles Osgood, “Richard Avedon reflects on his career,” CBS Sunday Morning, aired December 1, 2002. https://youtu.be/M9SUQvJLxUY?si=jo5dURWvOpud1T9U&t=2255
Patsy Swank, “Richard Avedon – show at DMFA” Swank in the Arts, aired May 2, 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfhSeSJOtc
Louise Todd, “Richard Avedon’s imagined west,” Atlantic Vol 257 (Mar 1986).
Samantha Krukowski, “Stylistic Trials and Documentary Tribulations in Richard Avedon’s ‘In the American West’ (1990),” American Suburb X published Sept 20 2010. https://americansuburbx.com/2010/09/theory-trials-and-documentary.html
Susan Weiley, “Avedon Goes West,” ArtNews Vol 85,No. 3, (Mar 1986), 90, cited in Samantha Krukowski, “Stylistic Trials and Documentary Tribulations in Richard Avedon’s ‘In the American West’ (1990),” American Suburb X published Sept 20 2010. https://americansuburbx.com/2010/09/theory-trials-and-documentary.html
Sylvie Pénichon, “The Making of In the American West”, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation Vol 47, No. 3 (2008), 176.

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