One icon illuminates the work of another when Brooke Shields sits down with Vogue for a special episode of LifeInLooks marking the centennial of Richard Avedon’s birth. Watch the full episode here:
for a special “Life in Looks” marking the centennial of Richard Avedon’s birth, which takes us roughly from the photographer’sThe iconic images Shields talks through express a range of emotions, including joy and melancholy . A 14-timecover girl, Shields speaks from experience. Reacting to a 1978 portrait Avedon took of her for an issue of the magazine, she recalls: “I remember being taken to his studio after school with my mom.
Avedon had an eye for composition and the ability to illuminate his sitters’ essences in ways that related to the larger cultural zeitgeist. As Shields puts it: “I think Avedon was always very intent on capturing duality in his subjects, sort of a truth and a mask at the same time.” This contextualization contributes to the power of the photographer’s work.
In Shields’s view, the inability of the public to see the big picture is what created the tempest in a teapot around her 1980 Calvin Klein jeans campaign with Avedon. The print ads, she explains, were “accompanied with a whole series of commercials, drawing upon literary references, and specific verbiage, and Darwinism… All of the dialogue in these commercials was designed to have duality and that’s what also made them unique.
One hundred years after his birth, Avedon’s work continues to open our eyes and widen our worldviews through photographs that capture important moments. He grasped the uniqueness of his sitters, while highlighting our common humanity.Director Of Photography: Emmanuella ZachariouAssociate Director, Creative Development, Vogue: Alexandra Gurvitch
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