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Richard Avedon ~ Photographs 1946-2004 ~ A Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau

Richard Avedon - Dovina with Elephants -  Dress by Dior - August, 1955, Paris

BERLIN – Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946–2004 – A Retrospective. This is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the American star photographer Richard Avedon since his death in 2004. Many epoch-making and pioneering pictures are on show: the picture of the famous model Dovima, posing amidst sawdust and hay between elephants in an haute-couture creation, was revolutionary and ground-breaking in 1948; the 9.5 x 3 m. group portrait of “Andy Warhol and the members of the Factory” from 1969, where Avedon was able to bring out the individual personalities in the group; and the picture of Charles Chaplin, forming devil’s horns on his forehead and waving goodbye to McCarthyism’s USA with his gaze.

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