Man ray and Richard Avedon

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M A N R A Y

...his early years

Man Ray

August 27, 1890

Birth

1921

Moves to Paris

1940

Fled WWII and returned to the States

1962 - 1974

Held five major exhibitions internationally

1913

Moves to artist colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey

Richard Avedon

http://www.richardavedon.com/

• Attended the New York school for Social Research in New York City to study photography under Alexey Brodovitch, the acclaimed art director of Harper’s Bazaar
• Formed a close bond with Brodovitch and within one year Avedon was hired as staff photographer for the
• Harper’s Bazaar in 1945-Avedon was assigned to cover the spring and fall fashion collections in Paris

Similarities

1951

Returned to Paris

1915

First one-person show – Meets Marcel Duchamp

1925

Hired by Vogue – Becomes renowned as a great fashion photographer

1908

Completes high school and attends Ferrar Center free-school

• Wanted to be a photographer since childhood
• Embraced and loved fashion
• Very satisfied with his work and contributions to art

November 18, 1976

Death

• Had little interest in or respect for photography
• Wanted little to do with the fashion industry
• Never achieved all he hoped for with his preferred art forms

• Russian Jewish immigrant parents
• Family had fashion-related careers
• Refused education in favour of artistic careers
• Lived in New York
• Participated in war-time media - Avedon war photography, Ray anti-war cartoons
• Worked for Vogue
• Major contributors in photography being recognized as art

• Legendary editor, Carmel Snow, covered the runway shows, while Avedon’s task was to stage photographs of models wearing the new fashions out in the city itself
• Late 1940s and early 1950s he created elegant black-and-white photographs showcasing the latest fashions in real-life settings such as Paris's picturesque cafes, cabarets and streetcars

R I C H A R D A V E D O N

1992

Hired as first staff photographer by New Yorker -- Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit

May 15, 1923

Birth

1966

Hired by Vogue

1958

Popular Magazine listed with world’s ten greatest photographers

1945

Hired as staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar

1965

Leaves Harper's Bazaar

1955

Shoots "Dovima with Elephants"

1977

Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit

1941

Graduates high school and attends Columbia University

October 1, 2004

Death

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• One of the first self-consciously artistic commercial photographers, that played a large role in defining the artistic purpose and possibilities of the genre “The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
• In 1992, Avedon became the first staff photographer in the history of The New Yorker
• Last project for The New Yorker, which remained unfinished, was a portfolio entitled “Democracy” that included portraits of political leaders such as Karl Rove and John Kerry as well as ordinary citizens engaged in political and social activism.

• In 1913, Ray moved to an artists’ colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey
• Began working mainly with Cubism, then moved on to abstraction
• Married Belgian poet Adon Lacroix in 1914, but they eventually separated in 1918, not divorcing until 1937
• Held his first one-person show in 1915 in Manhattan, the results of which encouraged and gave him the funding to rent a studio in New York City
• This is when he met Marcel Duchamp, a fellow Dadaist who would become his greatest friend and artistic influence
• Over time, Ray began experimenting with various other media, becoming known for mixing elements of multiple forms of media

• Developed an interest for poetry in high school
• Avedon and Baldwin served as co-editors of the school’s prestigious literary magazine, The Magpie

Richard Avedon

• Ray reinvented photograms, which he called rayographs, in his darkroom by placing objects on photo paper and exposing them to light
• Rayographs became one of Ray’s trademark mediums, using them in personal pieces and publications like Vogue
• One of Ray’s most recognized surrealist photographs was Le Violon d’Ingres, created in 1924
• In 1929, Ray was sought and found by Vogue model Lee Miller, who would become his assistant, lover and muse until she would return to her birthplace, New York, in 1932
• Ray returned to New York City following the beginning of WWII in 1940

• Around 1916 he began using photographs in his work, although he always attested that photography was a lower form of art than traditional painting
• In 1921, Ray left for Paris, where he was welcomed by the Dadaists as a forerunner of the movement, but found it very difficult to sell any of his paintings
• To make his livelihood, Ray began doing portraits and fashion photography
• Catching the attention of couturier Paul Poiret, Ray was hired by Vogue and gained a reputation as a master photographer (would not be published until 1925)
• The Gift was created in 1921 and was one of his first famous works; an iron with tacks glued down the centre

• Named “Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools,” during his senior year
• Graduated from high school in 1941 and enrolled at Columbia University to study philosophy and poetry
• Served in the United States Merchant Marine from 19421944 during the WWII as a photographer’s mate Second Class taking identification portraits of sailors

• Born on May 15, 1923 in New York-Mother, Anna Avedon, came from a family of dress manufacturers and his father, Jacob Israel Avedon, owned a clothing store called Avedon’s Fifth Avenue-
• Avedon took great interest in fashion as a young-
• At age 12, he joined the YMHA (Young Men’s Hebrew Association) camera club
• Attended Dewitt Clinton High School in New York City, where one of his classmates and closest friends was the great writer, James Baldwin

• Late 1940s and early 1950s he created elegant black-and-white photographs showcasing the latest fashions in real-life settings such as Paris's picturesque cafes, cabarets and streetcars
• In 1955, Avedon made fashion and photography history when he staged a photo shoot at a circus: “Dovima with Elephants”

Man Ray

• Avedon served as a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar for 20 years, from 1945 to 1965(Insert picture of Harper’s Bazaar 1955)
• In 1958, he was on Popular Magazine amongst the world’s ten greatest photographers
• Became known for his fashion photography and portraiture
• Avedon’s black-and-white portraits were remarkable for capturing the essential humanity and vulnerability lurking in such larger-than-life figures as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan and The Beatles

• While Ray was recognized in much of the art world as an important figure, he was never quite accepted as such in the States until he moved to Los Angeles where he was respected as father of modernism
• Dissatisfied with his life in Los Angeles, Ray returned to Paris in 1951 - Here, he continued with his art and wrote his autobiography

• Born August 27, 1890, Emmanuel Radnitzsky
• Parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants – his father a tailor
• Family changed surname to Ray in 1911, Emmanuel shortened his first name to Man
• Ray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved to Brooklyn when he was 7 years old
• Turned down a scholarship in architecture to pursue his dream of becoming an artist
• Completed high school in 1908 and attended the anarchist Ferrer Center free-school where he studied drawing under American painter Robert Henri, encouraged by Alfred Stieglitz
• Took influence from artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, and Marcel Duchamp

• In the 1960s, Avedon also expanded into more explicitly political photography
• Captured portraits of civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Julian Bond, as well as segregationists such as Alabama Governor George Wallace, and ordinary people involved in demonstrations

• In the 1960s, both Dada objects and photography raised in popularity and respect in the art community
• Ray held major exhibitions in Paris in 1962, Los Angeles in 1966, Rotterdam in 1971, Paris in 1972, and New York in 1974
• Ray passed away November 18, 1976, in his studio in Paris
• While Ray held a very high reputation in the art world, he felt unfulfilled in many aspects; he never became as popular for his paintings as he wished, he did not want to be as well known for his photography as he was, and he never received the acceptance from American critics as he had strived for

• In 1969, he shot a series of Vietnam War portraits that included the Chicago Seven, American soldiers and Vietnamese napalm victims-
• Avedon left Harper’s Bazaar in 1965 and started working for Vogue in 1966-1990 as a photographer
• Avedon was also a driving force behind photography's emergence as a legitimate art form during the 1960s, '70s and '80s

• In 1974 Avedon's photographs of his terminally ill father were featured at the Museum of Modern Art, and the next year a selection of his portraits was displayed at the Marlborough Gallery

• In 1977, a retrospective collection of his photographs, “Richard Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977,” was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before beginning an international tour of many of the world’s most famous museums

"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence." ~ Man Ray

-One of the first self-consciously artistic commercial photographers, that played a large role in defining the artistic purpose and possibilities of the genre “The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Publications

1959 – Observations

1964 – Nothing Personal

1976 – Portraits

1978 – Avedon Photographs1947 – 1977

1985 – In The American West 1979 – 1984

1993 – An Autobiography Richard Avedon

1994 – Evidence 1944 – 1994

1999 – Avedon The Sixties

2001 – Richard Avedon: Made in France

2002 – Richard Avedon Portraits

• Richard Avedon passed away on October 1, 2004, while on assignment for The New Yorker in San Antonio, Texas. He was 81 years old
• Avedon was such a predominant cultural force that he inspired the classic 1957 film Funny Face, in which Fred Astaire’s character is based on Avedon's life

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