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Richard Avedon: Major Names Celebrate the Legacy of a Unique Photographer

An expansive new exhibition, on the 100th anniversary of his birthday, sees notable names from Cindy Crawford to Spike Lee pick their favourite images.
Dovima with Elephants, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955.
Dovima with Elephants, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955. (Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation)

“People who you’ve read about or know about – there they are looking right at you.” Art curator Kara Vander Weg is talking with me about global art gallery Gagosian’s major new Richard Avedon retrospective, in which 150 individuals – ranging from the younger Barbara Bush to Khloé Kardashian to Spike Lee to Elton John to Renata Adler to Vander Weg herself – each selected a single Avedon photo to celebrate. She’s explaining the intimacy that she believes sets Avedon’s photos apart. “His subjects are looking right at you, and you can look right at them. You can’t help but react to the human right there in front of you.”

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