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In this 1½ hour masterpiece, produced as part of the 1996 "American Masters Series." we are immersed in the world of legendary portrait photographer, Richard Avedon.
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. 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"
From the 1996 American Masters Series
A meeting with a young homeless girl in the streets of London changes his artistic approach forever. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The photographer knew that the young girl had noticed him but his first reaction was to leave. He says that something made him stay and go and discuss with the homeless girl. His perception about the homeless completely changes. They become the subject of his art.
It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. I am so jealous of Lee!
Don't miss Alex Webb's exhibition, The Suffering of Light, at Paris Photo LA, April 26-28.
Photographer Alex Webb was born in San Francisco, California, in 1952. He studied history and literature at Harvard University and photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Webb lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Webb's photographs have appeared in such magazines as GEO, Time, and the New York Times Magazine. He has covered many subjects for National Geographic magazine, including the Amazon River; Tijuana and Monterrey, Mexico; and Istanbul.
