MPS 301 Lecture Notes - Richard Avedon, American Movie, Lisette Model
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Russian jewish family and served in he war this is where he said that he learned how to be a photography studied under that art director of haper"s bazaar. 1966 he became the staff photographer for vogue. Worked as a staff photographer for the new yorker. Earliest portraiture an example of would be july garland. Place were the sitter is no longer at ease. Has no softness to is and the light strips away the sitter and lets you see the sitter. Not how the sitter would like to be seen but, how he interprets them. Images taken while he was dying of cancer. Had 2 daughters amy and doon arbus. After separating from her husband she works for the new york time. The height of her career was in the show new documents this involved the photographers perspective as opposed to the object of another"s. She commits suicide before her large show.
