In 1994, #JaneLivingston and @adamgopnik had a go at what made #RichardAvedon important. Now it’s our turn. We review “1944-1994” the companion piece to his retrospective at @whitneymuseum: https://wp.me/P23AlC-gu
In 1994, #JaneLivingston and @adamgopnik had a go at what made #RichardAvedon important. Now it’s our turn. We review “1944-1994” the companion piece to his retrospective at @whitneymuseum: https://wp.me/P23AlC-gu

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/23/james-baldwin-nothing-personal-4-am/

Richard Avedon’s Striking Portraits of Everyday Folk From the American West

Currently on show in London.

PetaPixel

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/james-baldwin-nothing-personal-4-am/

Go west! Richard Avedon’s working class heroes – in pictures

'From crying miners to birthday girls via a body therapist and a meat packer, portraits from Richard Avedon’s celebrated series In the American West are on show in a new exhibition curated by his granddaughter'

#photography #PortraitPhotography #RichardAvedon #America #US

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jan/27/richard-avedon-in-the-american-west-exhibition

Go west! Richard Avedon’s working class heroes – in pictures

From crying miners to birthday girls via a body therapist and a meat packer, portraits from Richard Avedon’s celebrated series In the American West are on show in a new exhibition curated by his granddaughter

The Guardian

Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/10/andre-gregory-richard-avedon-letter/

Did anyone explore the question of what it means to be famous in America better than #RichardAvedon? Or more relentlessly? We review “1944-1994” the companion piece to his retrospective at @whitneymuseum: https://wp.me/P23AlC-gu
Did anyone explore the question of what it means to be famous in America better than #RichardAvedon? Or more relentlessly? We review “1944-1994” the companion piece to his retrospective at @whitneymuseum: https://wp.me/P23AlC-gu

Richard Avadon's portrait of John Lennon, taken in August 1967, and the solarized version he developed for the cover of Look magazine in January 1968.

Avadon's previous fashion photography had been almost all black and white, even in the late '60s.

#photography #thebeatles #johnlennon #richardavedon #1960s #psychadelic