Richard avedon brief biography of mozart

          Richard Avedon () was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career.!

          From the Introduction

          On the occasion of her starring role as King Lear on Broadway, the great British actor Glenda Jackson, by then eighty-two years old, asserted that Shakespeare remains the most con- temporary dramatist in the world “because he really only ever asks three questions: Who are we?

          Mozart: His Character, His Work (Galaxy Books) ; Publish Date: December 31st, ; Publisher: Oxford University Press ; ISBN: ; Pages: ; Nov

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        2. Richard Avedon () was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career.
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        4. Like his father, Richard Rush was born to serve his country.

          5. What are we? Why are we?” These same existential questions underscore the body of portraiture produced by Richard Avedon in the second half of the twentieth century. We are all of the same species, he was saying, and with each portrait he made, regardless of whether it was of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, or a drifter in the American West, he rendered a specimen of our species to be contemplated in the context of his ongoing catalog of humanity, prompting us to consider ourselves over and over again, as if in mirror image: Who are we?

          What are we? Why are we?And, yet, in Avedon’s lifetime, he was dismissed as a “celebrity photographer”—an intellec