“Being Richard Avedon” A short film by Jerry Mann. February, 2010. from roop to Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 2 min 93 sec
✓ Published: 12-Mar-2010

Description:
I will never forget that Fashion Photography class at Ohio University where we learned that Richard Avedon had rocked the boat. It was 1986, and he had just completed a six-year project, In the American West, where he traveled far from his New York studio and photographed a variety of working class Westerners. His portrayals were unflinchingly raw takes of real people. He recorded his subjects with extreme detail, some of them having just emerged out of a mineshaft, off the oil field or from wit