Level 5 photography
Portraits
Richard Avedon

American photographer that is best known for his work in fashion and minimalist portraits. He worked with merchant marines to take identification photos then moved to fashion to shoot for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, his models convey emotion and movement. His black and white portraits were capturing the essential humanity and vulnerability. Avedon gets lost on what's really there in front of him as he gets carried away from someones beauty or the subjects own idea of bringing out the best of them to seduce or pose to the camera.  Richard Avedon pictures capture immense detail and uses a long exposer to get depth of field, at the age of 22 he began working as a freelance photographer, primarily for Harpers Bazaar and denied the use of studio and wanted to photograph models on the streets, in night clubs, on the beach, he did this because he was fascinated to capture the personality and evoking the life of his subjects.


"sometimes I think all my picture are use picture of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what i consider the human predicament may simply be y own."  Richard Avedon