Avedon
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The document provides instructions for a warm up photography assignment to take portraits in the style of Richard Avedon. [1] Avedon was a famous fashion and portrait photographer known for his stark black and white images set against plain white backdrops with a focus on the subject's face and expression. [2] The assignment asks students to take one individual portrait and one group portrait, focusing on simplicity, capturing emotionlessness, and using black and white film or post-processing to emulate Avedon's signature style.
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Avedon
- 1. Warm Up: Portrait Photography 2 Photos 1.Individual Photo (1 person) 2.Group Photo (2 or more)
- 2. Take photos in style of Richard Avedon • 1923-2004 • Started out as fashion photographer • Worked for NY magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker
- 3. Strong black-and- white contrast creates an effect of sophistication.
- 4. The portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops, with no props or extraneous details to distract from their person. Marian Anderson, contralto, Truman Capote, 1974 New York City, June 30, 1955
- 5. SIMPLICITY! FOCUS is on the face, gaze, dress, and gesture. Ezra Pound, Poet, 1958
- 6. Anti-fashion Movement. He began to take the type of reality photographs that most photographers [especially fashion photographers Samuel Beckett ] of that time
- 7. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed. Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States, 1964 Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII), 1957
- 8. DRAMA! Created a sense of drama by often using a stark, white background and eliciting a frontal, confrontatio Marilyn Monroe, actress , New York City, May 6, 1957
- 9. Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, George Bush, Director, CIA, Washington D.C., May 7, 1976 Langley, Virginia, March 2, 1976
- 10. Andy Warhol, artist , New York City, August 20, 1969
- 11. Michael Moore, Political Satirist Edward Albee, Playwright
- 12. “In the American West,” 1979-1984 • Portraits of miners, oil field workers in their soiled work clothes, unemployed drifters, teenagers
- 13. In front of his camera, emotions are NOT obvious. Sandra Bennett, twelve year old Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980 Emma Lee Wellington, housewife North Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980
- 14. Preferring to avoid the "pretty" and bring out the stark underlying "reality" of the subject. Ruby Mercer, publicist, Blue Cloud Wright, Frontier Days, Cheyenne, slaughterhouse worker, Wyoming, 1982 Omaha, Nebraska, 1979
- 15. Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Year Old Rattlesnake Skinner, Sweetwater, TX, 1979 Roberto Lopez, oil field worker, Lyons, Texas, September 28, 1980
- 16. Ronald Fischer, beekeeper , Davis, California, May 9, 1981 Jan Patricio Lobato, carney Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980
- 17. Group Photos
- 19. Richard Avedon’s Senior Lennard Nerona’s Ap Art Student
- 20. YOUR WARM UP: Classic Portraits in the style of Richard Avedon. -Simple backgrounds -Focus on lack of emtions… capture the rawness of the person. -Black and White Two Photos: 1.Individual Photo of 1 person 2.Group Photo of 2 or more people.