At the time, the images in Harper’s illustrated to the world just how beautiful life could be, and the Editors told Avedon that he was to visualize French glamour prior to the war – a vision that did not exist – and bring it to life on the page. While the Nazis occupied France there was literally no French fashion to speak of. Merchant Marines between 1942-44, and at the age of twenty-one received what may have been his most difficult assignment from Harper’s Bazaar magazine, then Edited by Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland and Alexey Brodovitch.ĭuring WWII American fashion was it. If a picture is worth a thousand words Avedon has spoken 500 million of them, and they have each been words of poetry.Īvedon attended Clinton High School and was co-editor, with James Baldwin, of the Magpie literary magazine, he was named Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools by the New York Times in 1941, served in the U.S. In that time, he made over 500,000 prints, which roughly comes to 17 per day, and shot who knows how many frames of film in doing so. Richard Avedon was born in New York City in 1923 and spent nearly every day of his life operating a camera until the day he died, October 1, 2004, while on assignment for New Yorker Magazine, in San Antonio, Texas.
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