Richard Avedon

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Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in The New York Times said that “his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century”.

In January 1965, Richard Avedon met The Beatles at the Ad Lib club in London while he was in town for an assignment for the magazine Harper’s Bazaar. He shot portrait photos of Paul McCartney dressed as an astronaut, and some of the photos also featured English model and actress Jean Shrimpton. One of these shots was published in Harper’s Bazaar in April 1965.

In August 1967, Richard Avedon photographed the Beatles and turned four portraits into four psychedelic images. The images were first released in the US magazine Look in January 1968 and in the UK Daily Express in February 1968.

In 1968, he photographed the much more restrained portraits that were included with The Beatles LP in 1968. Among the many other rock bands photographed by Avedon, in 1973, he shot Electric Light Orchestra with all the members exposing their bellybuttons for recording On the Third Day.

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