Richard Avedon was a leading 20th-century photographer known for fashion photographs that had a sense of movement and spontaneity and for portraits that emphasized each subject’s individuality. Among his well-known works from a career that lasted nearly 60 years are Dovima with Elephants (1955), photographs of Marilyn Monroe (1957), the monumental group portrait Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory (1969), and the In the American West (1979–84) series.
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