ART AND THE FASHION PHOTOGRAPHS OF RICHARD AVEDON

“It’s not a picture of you; it’s a picture of me.” — Richard Avedon

The body of work that an artist leaves behind can be a collection of objects or sounds that reflect the pieces of the world that they absorbed and that absorbed them. Precisely what that world was for each artist can be challenging to decipher. But not always. For one thing, there is the general culture within which an artist works. Music from the west is easily distinguished from Eastern music, as is a country-western ballad from…