Richard avedon audrey hepburn

Richard avedon audrey hepburn photographs Avedon created this fanciful image of the actress Audrey Hepburn for the first issue of Famous Photographers magazine. After photographing Hepburn in the studio, he made a collage of several images printed to scale; an airbrushed sheet of Mylar laid over the collage concealed the visible seams.

Audrey Hepburn, New York, January

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Avedon created this fanciful image of the actress Audrey Hepburn for the first issue of Famous Photographers magazine.

After photographing Hepburn in the studio, he made a collage of several images printed to scale; an airbrushed sheet of Mylar laid over the collage concealed the visible seams. In the accompanying article, Avedon explained that his interest in photocollage grew from “years of looking at contact sheets and being limited by the reality of what was in front of the camera.”

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Title:Audrey Hepburn, New York, January

Artist:Richard Avedon (American, New York – San Antonio, Texas)

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Medium:Collage of gelatin silver prints

Dimensions:Image: x cm (16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Frame: x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.)

Classification:Photographs

Credit Line:Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York.

New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," October 10, –January 27,

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," February 17–May 5,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Richard avedon audrey hepburn Nevertheless, they are all standard-issue constructions of feminine beauty made, and challenged here, by one of fashion’s most celebrated photographers, Richard Avedon, who had photographed Hepburn for more than a decade before making his collage.

"Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," June 2–August 25,

Fineman, Mia. Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

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