Photography Exhibition: International Center of Photography - Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

The International Center of Photography regularly has spectacular exhibitions of photography. One of its current exhibitions, Avedon Fashion 1944–2000, is no exception. If you're in the New York City area make sure you see this exhibition of one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century.

This exhibition will be the most comprehensive exploration to date of Avedon's fashion photography during his long career at Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker, and beyond.

This exhibition will run through September 6, 2009

"Richard Avedon (1923–2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. Anticipating many of the cultural cross-fertilizations that have occurred between high art, commercial art, fashion, advertising, and pop culture in the last twenty years, he created spirited, imaginative photographs that showed fashion and the modern woman in a new light. He shook up the chilly, static formulas of the fashion photograph and by 1950 was the most imitated American editorial photographer. Injecting a forthright, American energy into a business that had been dominated by Europeans, Avedon's stylistic innovations continue to influence photographers around the world."

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