Excellent video. Avedon rescued Lartigue from being completely forgotten and formed a close friendship with him. I think you might have mentioned the intense rivalry with Irving Penn, and their differences and debates about portraiture, which probably influenced the late style of Avedon.

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11 ай бұрын

Hi I had to edit my video, so Penn got left behind. Thanks.

Thank you for the lecture. It’s only a few artist/photographers that survive their time on the Earth. Often they can be discovered later for a new generation.

Yes, as always enjoyed your introduction to this great photographer. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on him. 🙏🙏🙏

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11 ай бұрын

Thanks Heinz

These photographic conversations are all excellent. Thanks for sharing wealth of knowledge with us.

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11 ай бұрын

Thanks James

Just love his work.

This is a first-class and inspiring series. Thank you.

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11 ай бұрын

Thanks Sam

Thanks Graeme. I’m learning much from your excellent insights and of course I remember his fashion photography as it was during my youth.

Excellent video about one of the true greats. I have been looking through my copy of “Avedon’s France” (great 800pp book, $15 on Amazon) and, because I am less familiar with most of the ‘personalities’ I can see what a superb portraitist he was. Also throughout a man of integrity, constantly creative.

I surely did enjoyed it...

Hi Graeme, as a relatively new photographer I really like your KZread channel. There are few channels with real photographers talking about the work of others. Please discuss Ernst Haas sometime too, I like his work a lot. And Eugene Smith. Greetings from Boston, hope to visit S. Africa some day...

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6 ай бұрын

Hi Richard Thanks for your feedback.

Thank you for an insightful look at Avedon.

Great work.....glad you gave us a deeper look.

I love his magazine work, his sense of fluid style. I simply think he'd rejected this as falsity by the time of 'The Americans' and his later portraits, which would be legitimate but for me is a bit Brechtian in its bleakness.

His book "In the American West" fetches a high price. His use of a plain white background and an 8x10 really appeals to me and I may give it a go someday.

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11 ай бұрын

17,000 sheets of 8x10 film he allegedly shot for that book .. at what? 8 bucks a pop now a days