The American fashion photographer Richard Avedon (born 1923) was best known for his probing portraits that go beyond recording likenesses to explore the identity of society and to reflect dreams and desires. Richard Avedon was born in New York City on...

Richard Avedon added new depth to fashion photography beginning in 1945. His fashion photographs—in Harper's Bazaar, 1945-66, and in Vogue, 1966-90—were distinctive in expressing both motion and emotion. Avedon imparted the...

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine...

Richard Avedon discusses is his craft, his choice of subjects and his techniques in an audio cassette tape. Avedon also tackles photographic truth, authorship and meaning. For Avedon, control is the key to making his presence known in a photograph. His understanding of the...

Richard Avedon, portrait photographer, died on October 1st, aged 81 IN AMERICA'S bicentennial year, 1976, Richard Avedon was commissioned to photograph the great and good of the country for Rolling Stone. Among the meetings with edgy ex-presidents, leonine great writers and radicals...

Room with a view We were talking last week to Horst Rechelbacher, the founder of Aveda, about the $4.3m penthouse apartment he just bought at his One Fifth Avenue co-op. "The view here is Heaven," exclaimed Mr. Rechelbacher, referring to his wrap-around porch. "Heaven...

“I’m a terrible meditator,” Maura Moynihan confessed. “I can’t sit still for more than five minutes. I tried and failed. I wish I were a monk. I’m not. I’m an angry New Yorker.”Ms. Moynihan, the daughter of the late U.S. senator from New York,...