Word: avedon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Style is substance, and fashion follows form in this collection of strikingly seductive fashion photographs since 1945. From Richard Avedon's dramatic compositions to Irving Penn's crisp images to Deborah Turbeville's diaphanous fantasies, these images reflect the vision of the photographer far more than the fashions they are designed to sell...
Each era has its high points, often about unsuspected topics. "The Black Angel's Death Song" revolves on the paradoxes of the will encountering language, the language of choice, and violence. "Andy's Chest," inspired by the Richard Avedon photo of Warhol's bullet-scarred body, concludes with the thickest description of the Warholian psyche...