Photography Exhibition: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Avedon Fashion 1944-2000

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, periodically has terrific photographic exhibitions. In case you missed this traveling exhibition earlier in New York, the Museum has, Avedon Fashion 1944–2000, an exceptional exhibition, for a few more weeks.

If you're in the Boston area, and still haven't seen this exhibition of one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century, try to get there. The exhibition is 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 January 17, 2011.

"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."

As I travel, I love seeing the work of other photographers as I hope you do. If you know of a new photographic exhibition which you think the Blog should publicize, please contact me.