Richard Avedon Foundation
From glossy fashion to the world we live in: The iconic images of Richard Avedon
By Elis Kiss
Henry Moores hand speaks of the sculptor in a 1963 photograph, while a double-take portrait of Francis Bacon from 1979 comes as a reflection of the painters own fragmented oeuvre. The images, shot by acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon, are iconic: They define their era, the sitters and the person orchestrating them behind the lens.