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...have been partly to pre-empt those lines of attack that the Whitney show, which was organized by the photography historian Jane Livingston, includes hardly any of Avedon's fashion photography. And there is something valuable about looking at Avedon's work apart from what we know about the charmed kid who blew into the offices of Harper's Bazaar in the late 1940s and set the superexotic Dovima against a trio of dancing pachyderms. Nevertheless, Avedon the mordant portraitist cannot be understood without reference to Avedon the fashion photographer. From his work for Harper's and Vogue he learned...
...Avedon brought his camera to the Berlin Wall on the nights that thousands of people gathered on either side to celebrate its fall. The Whitney retrospective ends with the pictures he made there. Strobe-lit crowd shots full of wild spirits, they hint that freedom has its demented side and that the end of communism might unleash new terrors of its own. Are those pictures pure reporting, or are they artifice? And is this the right line of inquiry? Perhaps instead of worrying about where Avedon falls on the continuum between death and Dovima, we should recognize that his pictures...
Photography: As his Whitney retrospective reveals, Richard Avedon photographs others to make portraits of himself...
Says David Foster, who produced The Power of Love: "I truly, truly believe in my heart that Celine is the world's next superstar." That could be dismissed as so much hype, except that Foster knows quite a bit about superstars. He produced Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and has also worked with Streisand, Natalie Cole and Frank Sinatra in the past three years. "Celine is right there," he says. "She's in that company...
...band's name, for one thing, to NKOTB (not, obviously, a radical switcheroo) and hire a team of crack producers to give them a slicker, more grown-up sound. Thanks to studio pros like Teddy Riley % and Narada Michael Walden (who have separately produced records for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey), Face the Music is the most polished album the Kids have ever made...