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title: "Utmost authenticity: Richard Avedon"
date: 2014-10-01
last_modified: 2025-02-05T11:17:03+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/utmost-authenticity-richard-avedon-context-en/"
description: "His photographs come across as natural, taken from life, accidental. And yet they are unsurpassably elegant. Richard Avedon was a pioneer of fashion photography, and many of his images have been imprinted on our visual memory."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Richard_Avedon_250_001_Kopie.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Utmost authenticity: Richard Avedon