In Richard Avedon’s over 60-year career behind the camera, he became the pre-eminent fashion photographer and then one of the most famous photographic portraitists in the world ...

In October 1966, photographer Richard Avedon arrived in “the Valley of Hell” on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, where sulfur seeps from the rock face to create plumes of otherworldly smoke.

NEW YORK — When, in 1969, Richard Avedon decided to go big, he’d intuited that it was either that or, as they say, go home. Avedon had been working as a fashion photographer — arguably the ...

During his senior year, Avedon’s father paid for him to have a nose job. Philip Gefter, the author of a new biography of the photographer Richard Avedon. Josh Gosfield ...

Brooke Shields, Hillary Clinton, Kim Kardashian and many more celebrate what would have been Richard Avedon’s 100th birthday with a sprawling new Gagosian exhibition and book.

Richard Avedon in 1968 was going through an artistic crisis. He needed a fresh start, with a new camera; he had to get out of New York; he needed to think bigger, in the most literal sense imaginable.

The exhibition “Richard Avedon: Portraits,” will be on view in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through Jan. 5, 2003. Originally Published: October 4, 2002 at 1:00 AM CDT ...

Photomat, Richard Avedon, photographer, with James Baldwin, writer, New York, September 1, 1964. Richard Avedon once won a teen poetry contest.

That talent is in evidence in “ (re)Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965,” an exhibition at the Smithsonian that will be on display until November.

COMMENTARY Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography Being the subject of Avedon's photographic scrutiny could be uncomfortable, especially if you've visibly aged By Rebecca Senf ...

Upper West Side art collector Eric Walters is accusing the Richard Avedon Foundation of making it difficult for him to sell a $15,000 nude photo of ballet star Rudolf Nureyev taken by the renowned ...

Say Richard Avedon and iconic images instantly come to mind: Dovima in an elegant Dior gown juxtaposed with gargantuan circus elephants, a space age Jean Shrimpton on the cover of Harper’s ...