![]() ![]() ![]() During her teen years, she struggled through psychiatric treatment, eventually becoming increasingly withdrawn from reality and diagnosed with schizophrenia. The photographer's first muse was his younger sister, Louise. His father was a critical and remote disciplinarian, who insisted that physical strength, education, and money prepared one for life. He would use his family's Kodak Box Brownie not only to feed his curiosity about the world but also to retreat from his personal life. Avedon's interest in photography emerged when, at age 12, he joined a Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) Camera Club. His mother, Anna, from a family that owned a dress-manufacturing business, encouraged Richard's love of fashion and art. His father, Jacob Israel Avedon, was a Russian-born immigrant who advanced from menial work to starting his own successful retail dress business on Fifth Avenue called Avedon's Fifth Avenue. Early life and education Īvedon was born in New York City to a Jewish family. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century". He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. ![]()
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