Richard AvedonAmerican, 1923–2004Steve Andersen and Peter Beard
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
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- The museum
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- Accession number
- 2005.160.2
In the catalog
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — Photograph by Richard Avedon ©The Richard Avedon Foundation
Meanwhile, in the life of Richard Avedon
The whole life1973–1988
Shoots most of the Vogue covers
From 1973 Avedon is the lead photographer at Vogue and photographs most of the covers until Anna Wintour becomes editor in chief in late 1988.
1974
Serious heart inflammation
In 1974 serious heart inflammations hinder Avedon’s health; the troubling time prompts him to look at his work from a new perspective.
1974
First works with Brooke Shields
For a Colgate toothpaste ad Avedon photographs the young Brooke Shields; later he photographs her for Versace, for twelve American Vogue covers and for Revlon’s campaign, and shoots the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign in which she is fifteen.
1976
The album “The Family” is published
The album of 69 black-and-white portraits of figures of government and business — George Bush, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld, members of the Kennedy and Rockefeller families — is published; The Family was also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
late 1970s
Buys a house in Montauk
Avedon buys a four-bedroom house on a 7.5-acre estate in Montauk, New York, between the Atlantic Ocean and a nature preserve; he will sell it in 2000 for almost $9 million.
1978
Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a retrospective of Avedon’s work, for which a seven-foot-high print of “Dovima with Elephants” is made; other accounts say the exhibition Avedon: Photographs 1947–1977 was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1974.
