Richard Avedon

[American Photographer, 1923-2004]

• Subject matter:	Specializes in Portraits.
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Original works by Richard Avedon available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Home Page:

Richard Avedon Home Page

Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
3 photographs by Richard Avedon online

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Richard Avedon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Richard Avedon: Portraits

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Marian Anderson, 1955

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
John Lennon, 1967

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Sandra Bennett, Twelve Year Old, Rocky Fort, Colorado, 8/23/80

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Richard Avedon in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Other Web Sites:

AnalisisFotografia (in Spanish)

ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) (17 works online)

Artnet Artist Works Catalogues

PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series

Photo District News Online
"Legends Online"

Photography @ Temple University Online

Time Magazine Cover Archive
Cher, photograph, 1975

Tout sur Catherine Deneuve (in French)
Photographs by Richard Avedon

Articles:

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Richard Avedon
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Frieze Magazine
"Body of Evidence"

Karl-Peter Gottschalk: Interviews
Interview with the artist

PhotoQuotes

Multimedia:

Google Video
2000 PBS interview discussing Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
About a half-dozen interviews with Richard Avedon

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