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Richard Avedon on Portrait Photography

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Richard Avedon instructions on dodging and burning.
Richard Avedon instructions on dodging and burning.
Richard Avedon instructions on dodging and burning.
Richard Avedon instructions on dodging and burning.

I consider Richard Avedon the best portrait photographer who ever lived (so far).

Here are some notes from a conversation between him and Irving Penn.

Also below are some of my favorite portraits of his, from his project, “In the American West”:

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ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.