Avedon

Richard Avedon
Rudolf Nureyev
1961
contact sheet
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Rudolf Nureyev
1961
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Rudolf Nureyev
1961
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Rudolf Nureyev
1961
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Raymundo de Larrain and Jacqueline de Ribes
1961
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Raymundo de Larrain
1961
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Harper's Bazaar Cover, October 1962
1962
dye transfer print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Cheryl Crane, daughter of Lana Turner
1963
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Ringo Starr
1965
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Robert Rauschenberg and Alex Hay
1965
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Dolores Guinness
1966
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Maria Callas
1970
halftone poster
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Cher
1975
dye transfer print
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Rose Kennedy
1976
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Self Portrait
1978
dye transfer print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Richard Avedon
Barbra Streisand
1981
halftone poster
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Richard Avedon
1994
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

from The Epistles

And yet if someone calls me 'wise' or 'fearless'
Must one protest? I like to be told I'm right,
And brilliant, as much as any other man.
The trouble is, the people who give out
The recognition, compliments, degrees
Can take them back tomorrow, if they choose;
The committee or electorate decide
You can't sit in the Senate, or have the Prize –
'Sorry, but isn't that ours, that you nearly took?'
What can I do, but sadly shuffle off?
If the same people scream that I'm a crook
Who'd strangle my father for money to buy a drink,
Should I turn white with pain and humiliation?
If prizes and insults from outside have much power
To hurt or give joy, something is sick inside.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by Robert Pinsky (1979)