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This exhibition shows the evolution of Avedon’s work.
In his first works until 1960, he plays the card of the atmosphere around his characters, then he concentrates on his subject with more refined minimalist back- grounds to highlight the expressions of the face, the gaze or a precise detail of a garment.
Avedon’s photographs are dense in emotion on edge, they throb with an intense and timeless life.Richard Avedon captured the essence of the most famous beings of his time from the Dalai Lama to Marylin Monroe via the Beatles and Truman Capote or Brigitte Bardot and Maria Callas.
Many of his shots have become legendary with an ins- tantly recognizable style.
Avedon was able to capture more than images but a galaxy of intimacies that live forever at the heart of his work in a world filled with emotions
from laughter to tears.
Richard Avedon Relationships
Palazzo Reale Milan - Italie - www.palazzoreale.it www.avedonmilano.it
Richard Avedon, Penelope Tree, mask by Ungaro, Paris studio, January 1968, negative, 1968; print, 1981 © The Richard Avedon Foundation