Avedon

Warm Up: Portrait Photography

2 Photos

1.Individual Photo (1 person)2.Group Photo (2 or more)

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

Strong black-and-white contrast creates an effect of sophistication.

Truman Capote, 1974Marian Anderson, contralto,

New York City, June 30, 1955

The portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops, with no props or extraneous details to distract from their person.

Ezra Pound, Poet, 1958

FOCUS is on the face, gaze, dress, and gesture.

SIMPLICITY!

Samuel Beckett

He began to take the type of reality photographs that most photographers [especially fashion photographers] of that time would never have taken.

Anti-fashion Movement.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor (King

Edward VIII), 1957

Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United

States, 1964

When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed.

Marilyn Monroe, actress , New York City, May 6, 1957

Created a sense of drama by often using a stark, white background and eliciting a frontal, confrontational pose

DRAMA!

George Bush, Director, CIA, Langley, Virginia, March 2, 1976

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Washington D.C., May 7, 1976

Andy Warhol, artist , New York City, August 20, 1969

Edward Albee, Playwright

Michael Moore, Political Satirist

“In the American West,” 1979-1984

• Portraits of miners, oil field workers in their soiled work clothes, unemployed drifters, teenagers

Sandra Bennett, twelve year old Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980 Emma Lee Wellington, housewife

North Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980

In front of his camera, emotions are NOT obvious.

Ruby Mercer, publicist, Frontier Days, Cheyenne,

Wyoming, 1982

Blue Cloud Wright, slaughterhouse worker, Omaha, Nebraska, 1979

Preferring to avoid the "pretty" and bring out the stark underlying "reality" of the subject.

Roberto Lopez, oil field worker, Lyons, Texas, September 28, 1980

Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Year Old Rattlesnake Skinner,

Sweetwater, TX, 1979

Ronald Fischer, beekeeper , Davis, California, May 9, 1981

Jan Patricio Lobato, carney Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980

Group Photos

Richard Avedon’s

Senior Lennard Nerona’s

Ap Art Student

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 person2.Group Photo of 2 or more people.