Richard Avedo

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Richard Avedo was born on May 15th, 1923 in San Antonia, Texas. He was an American fashion and portrait photographer. In his early career he worked as an advertising photographer for a department store. Later down the line he started doing photography for magazines such as Vogue and Life. Richard had photographed many famous people such as Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol and the Beatles. Richard had numerous museum exhibitions around the world. He would later die on October 1st in San Antonio, Texas.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon
https://www.avedonfoundation.org/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/richard-avedon

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