Richard Avedon: Studio Portraits

Richard was always interested in how portraiture captures the personality and soul of his subjects. His portraits are easily notable by his unfussy style, where the person is looking squarely in the camera, stood in front of a thin white background. Richard was able to focus on their hidden souls of his subjects by suggesting emotions and reactions and using soft light and props to help bring emotion etc. Richard usually suggest reactions from his subjects by guiding them into uncomfortable areas to discuss or ask curious questions. Through these answered questions would mean he would be able to produce portraits that is revealing sides of his subjects character and personality that are not capture by others.