The much-hyped Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 opens today at the International Center for Photography in New York City and runs through early fall. The curators, Carol Squires and Vince Aletti, discuss the exhibit in a lovely NY Times audio slide show: click here.
And here’s the description of the exhibition from the ICP:
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post- World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. Anticipating many of the cultural cross-fertilizations that have occurred between high art, fashion, advertising, and pop culture in the last twenty years, he created spirited, imaginative photographs that showed fashion and the modern woman in a new light. He shook up the chilly, static formulas of the fashion photograph and by 1950 was the most imitated American editorial photographer. Injecting a forthright, American energy into a business that had been dominated by Europeans, Avedon’s stylistic innovations continue to influence photographers around the world.
…The exhibition will feature more than 200 works by Richard Avedon, spanning his entire career, and will include vintage prints, contact sheets, magazine layouts, and archival material.
