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...RICHARD AVEDON, WHO DIED LAST WEEK AT 81, USED THE CAMERA AS an all-terrain vehicle. The terrain he crossed was the human form, the social fabric and that permanent terra incognita, the human face. A man so stylish could never escape being dismissed as merely stylish, as though he weren't quite worthy of the name artist. Yes, his black-and-white portraits against a stark white background made the truth seem hip. All the same, you only had to stand before his unblinking portrait of President Dwight Eisenhower, a dwindling old warrior. If art is a word...
DIED. RICHARD AVEDON, 81, celebrated art and fashion photographer; of complications of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Antonio, Texas (see page...
...ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard Avedon EXHIBITIONS: Art that rocks! CINEMA: Back to a digital future BOOKS: A poet's pub crawl...
...known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom." DIED. RICHARD AVEDON, 81, celebrated art and fashion photographer; of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Antonio, Texas. DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert on premenstrual syndrome; in Britain. She began studying the connection between the menstrual cycle and behavioral swings when, as a pregnant medical student, she noticed...
...birthday. My sister lives in San Francisco, so we met there to celebrate. I was an art student in Los Angeles, and I flew up. We all decided to go to a Richard Avedon photography show in Berkeley. I was kind of a con artist--small jobs, like getting in movies free--and I guess I was ready for a big job. While they were all looking at the photographs, I went to the next gallery, where the museum was installing scrolls from the Ming dynasty. The room was unguarded, and I slid an 8-ft. piece of Plexiglas...