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Richard Avedon – Photographer – Capturing fashion styles and makeup

I recently saw the Richard Avedon exhibit at the Detroit institute of Arts. Avedon was the primo photographer of fashion in the 1960’s-80. His signature photos show models in movement and clothes in a state of action. The exhibit took you through the beginning photos to his cutting edge New Yorker photo-torials. You could see the progression of a photographer genius taking the best concepts and magnifying them and interrupting for the future.
Richard Avedon photograph : Imparting a new sense of vitality to his models

Richard Avedon photograph : Imparting a new sense of vitality to his models

He loved beautiful models making them look interesting and exquisite just like the painter, Renoir, who produce beautiful portraiture. Avedon liked to develop relationships with models so they could easily get natural shots because they trusted each other and knew each other well. He created legendary fashion names like: Suzy Parker and Dovinna. In the 60’s he with Dina Vreeland, fashion priestess for Vogue, made famous the models Veruska and Penelope Tree. His alliance with Vogue magazine working closely with, the priestess of fashion, gave him the stature of one of the best well known and respected photographers in the world. From 1960 to 1980 he was Vogue magazine’s exclusive cover photogher.

Avedon photographed many celebrities; Audrey Hepburn known for her

Avedon photographed many celebrities; Audrey Hepburn known for her

His sense of beauty and definition of beautiful women gave beauty a new concept. He liked women with unusual faces. He favored angular and classic lines representing nontraditional beauty. The European face fascinated him. He did not prefer models with mass advertising correct looks. His penchant for Jacqueline de Ribes and Baroness De Rothschild demonstrated his taste for interesting timeless beauty faces. The models were no longer “Coat hangers” but real people with personalities.
Personally - when looking at the collection of fashion photographs I was struck how he could reveal the character, nonchalance or romance of a dress, suit or hat. He created a desire to be chic and well dressed and good make up. Naturally, the fashions he photographed were amazing – all the big names were captured by his camera – Dior, Givenchy, Balenciaga, and Lily Dache.
One photograph that struck me was one of a model primping before a mirror in the gorgeous marble bathroom of Helena Rubenstein, the diva of modern cosmetics. I took close notice of the makeup in his photographs through the decades. If you want to see how our concept of makeup has changed you need just to look at Avedon’s tome. The one thing that remains most constant is a focus on good eye brows and lips. Eyebrows in the 50’s were plucked to thin lines of color, today there is no one trend it follows each persons’ look and preference.

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