A presentation on Richard Avedon. Laura Wilson, Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson, Anjelica Huston, Vogue, The New Yorker, I do not own the rights to any of this material it is for a photojournalism class

1. Richard Avedon
By: Colton Macaluso
I see pictures of myself
and I always knew that
what I was feeling didn't
look like that guy in the
pictures.
-Avedon

2. May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004
 Avedon Worked for many magazines in the
birth of his career.
 Later Avedon Also worked for fashion
designers: Versace, CK, Revlon

3. Vogue
I am
always
stimulated
by people.
Almost
never by
ideas.
-Avedon

4. Life Magazine
I hate cameras. They
interfere, they're always in
the way. I wish: if I could
work with my eyes alone.
-Avedon

5. Style
 Blank Background
 Minimalistic
 No props
 No soft lighting
 Straight forward photography
 Portraits
 Avedon would often probe his subjects with
psychologically uncomforting dialogue to
provoke a display of their character.

6. Subjects
 Avedon had a wide variety of celebrities he
photographed all from different walks of
fame

7. Andy Warhol displaying
scars
The Beatles

8. John/Jackie
Kennedy
John Ford

9. Nepotism?

10. Or just an over active
imagination?
 Laura Wilson was Avedon’s assistant
for 6 Years
 Laura Wilson is the mother to a trio of
acting sons
 Owen Wilson
 Luke Wilson
 Andrew Wilson

11. Wilson and Avedon talking to the
subject of a shoot

12. Tying it all together!*
 Wes Anderson grew up with the Wilson
brothers
 Avedon’s work can be seen from time to
time as influence in Anderson’s films
 Most notably The Royal Tenenbaums
 Anjelica Huston was a frequent subject of
Avedon’s work
 Anderson also works with Huston regularly
*And my infatuation with him

13. Wilson’s imitation of Avedon's
American West photo of Boyd Fortin

14. Here Anderson and Wilson reference
In The American West to cast their
film Bottle Rocket

15. Avedon’s change of heart
 In ‘74 Avedon started his battle with severe
heart inflammation
 This reassurance of mortality caused him to
take on a new subject after being
approached by the director of the Amon
Carter Museum, in Texas.

16. In The American West
 focused on everyday working class people:
miners in dirty work clothes, housewives,
farmers and drifters
 5 Years of work
 762 people
 17,000 sheets of 8 x 10 film

18. I've
photographed
just about
everyone in the
world. But what I
hope to do is
photograph
people of
accomplishment,
not celebrity, and
help define the
difference once
again.
-Avedon

20. In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs.
Comfort, a fable by Richard Avedon.

21. Avedon’s last shoot was done for
The New Yorker November of ‘95

22. Avedon died October of ’04 from a
brain hemorrhage, at the age of 81,
leaving behind the legacy of his work
and philosophy.