http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6369050LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Famed portrait photographer Richard Avedon has suffered a brain hemorrhage while on assignment for the New Yorker magazine in Texas and has been hospitalized, a spokeswoman for the magazine said on Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Perri Dorset said Avedon, 81, suffered the stroke on Saturday while shooting an essay on democracy that was set to run shortly before the November U.S. presidential election.
His condition was guarded and Dorset said, "We're waiting for more information."
Her statements confirmed a report first published online in News Photographers Magazine, the bulletin of the National Press Photographers Association.
One of the most celebrated U.S. fashion and portrait photographers, Avedon was the first staff photographer ever hired for The New Yorker, a magazine that until editor Tina Brown took over in the 1990s traditionally did not run photographs.
Avedon's photos, usually intimate, intense studies against a white backdrop, are often powerful statements of a person's persona. Among his most famous photos are portraits of Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 30 September 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)
Amazing photos, I hope he's okay.
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 30 September 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)
My favorite photographer ever, nuff said.
― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 30 September 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)
May this thread continue until RA's full recovery. IIRC, Sly posed on a big sheet of glass for that
Fresh cover shot, and was not actually flying through the air like Bruce Lee.
― briania (briania), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Although Sly might well have possessed Spidey-like powers at the time, I think it was shot from underneath. Plus, close inspection reveals those stack-heel boots are of a type that COULDN'T have been produced by 1974 technology. Wake up, people!
― briania (briania), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
RIP :(
I saw a great retrospective of his in NYC in 2002 -- he was really an amazingly talented artist.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Something I didn't know: Richard Avedon and James Baldwin were co-editors of their high school literary magazine. (DeWitt Clinton High School in New York.)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
His last book, the accordion fold-out of portraits, is amazing and reasonably priced for a photo book.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Jaymc, I saw the same exhibit. This is going to sound so art-faggy, but there was such poignancy in the starkess of each huge photo.
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
avedon did a photo of little joe and candy darling that is found in his 60s, which says more about gender and sex, then any thing i have seen or read.
candy and joes penis, united in a sort of predante postvatican limbo, captured by avedon.
sigh.
rip
― anthony, Friday, 1 October 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)
thirteen years pass...
so there's a new bio of Avedon out (cowritten by a close associate) and the NYT review says he and Mike Nichols were lovers for a decade?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:12 (eight years ago)