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[marilynpixie1786]

He is there for suffering a brain hemorrhage, he is in critical but stable condition!



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Famed photographer Richard Avedon is in critical but stable condition at an undisclosed San Antonio hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage, a source close to the family said on Thursday.

Reports that the 81-year-old Avedon had suffered a stroke as a result of the hemorrhage were incorrect, the source said.

New Yorker magazine said on Wednesday that the photographer suffered the hemorrhage on Saturday while shooting an essay on democracy that was set to run shortly before the November U.S. presidential election.

One of the most celebrated U.S. fashion and portrait photographers, Avedon was the first staff photographer ever hired by The New Yorker, a magazine that until editor Tina Brown took over in the 1990s traditionally did not run photographs.

Among his most famous photos are portraits of Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote.


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[MM_Yvonne]

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[marilynpixie1786]

He died this morning at Methodist hospital in San Antonio, Texas. (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/sadballerina.gif)
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Richard Avedon, who turned fashion and portrait photography into art forms and captured unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker magazine said.

Spokeswoman Perri Dorset said Avedon, the magazine's staff photographer, died in San Antonio, Texas, almost a week after he suffered a brain hemorrhage while working on a photo essay on democracy for the magazine. New Yorker editor David Remnick said the magazine would publish the essay even though it was incomplete.

"He had taken pictures of ordinary people and people you know, wounded soldiers, politicians, activists, convention delegates. He was nearly finished when he was stricken,"

"In the course of 60 years nonstop work, he had the energy level of a hummingbird and he provided some of the most profound and joyous images of our time, whether it was portraits of Samuel Beckett, the Chicago Seven or criminals," Remnick added.

Avedon became the New Yorker's first staff photographer in 1992 after a career in which he virtually defined fashion and portrait photography in the United States, finding faces of women later dubbed super-models, thanks to his pictures.


FILM ON HIS LIFE


The 1957 Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn film "Funny Face," about a fashion photographer in Paris, was based on his life. He served as a consultant to director Stanley Donen.


From 1945 to 1965, he was staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar under a series of legendary editors. After he left Harper's, he joined Vogue, where he remained until 1990.

His portraits of such figures as Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote were intense studies against a white backdrop that often caught a person's secret persona.

He caught the essence of dancer Rudolph Nureyev by photographing his foot, and his portrait of a sensual Nastassja Kinski in 1981 -- wrapped in a python -- become one of the most talked-about photographs of its time.

"He seemed to get at the essence of people like no one else. His pictures of Marilyn Monroe capture her extraordinary sadness and her unexpected depth. He invented a kind of portraiture ... that was designed to display the essence of a person," New Yorker editor Remnick said.

"NO" TO CONVENTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Avedon once described his technique this way: "I've worked out of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narratives. And those no's force me to a yes. I have white background. I have the person I am interested in and the thing that happens between us."

In the introduction to a book he did on the faces of the American West, Avedon said, "A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or a 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 1994, American Photo magazine named him number one on its list of "Photography's Top 100.

"No one has ever used a camera the way Avedon has. Each time he makes a picture, it's like he's discovering the magic of photography again. For all their sophistication, his pictures derive their power from an ability to tap directly into our own childlike forbidden stare," the magazine's editor, David Schonauer, said.

Don Winslow, editor of News Photographer Magazine, said it was hard to say what was Avedon's greatest work as "he kept surpassing himself with everything he ever did. He worked with this huge crate of a camera that allowed him to fufill his vision. He had a minimal approach; the backgrounds were white or gray. The lighting was straight on. He had his subject confront the cameras but the subject was really confronting the photographer."

Avedon often left the realm of fashion to capture gritty real world images of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war and the Chicago Seven trial.

Born in New York, Avedon quit high school to join the Merchant Marine, where he learned photography by taking identification photos. Afterwards he he got a job at a department store and was brought to Harper's Bazaar by an art director who discovered him there.

[jeharsy]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/sadballerina.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/bye2.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/bye2.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/bye2.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/crybaby.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/crybaby.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/crybaby.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/helpsmilie.gif) We will miss him!! well at least he is with marilyn now, i hope i will be with them some day avedon----------= (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/jumpymm.gif) (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/jumpymm.gif) here is a wallpaper i found on the net....we will remember richar avedon forever, he became inmortal in the exact second when his camera shooted to photograph the legendary marilyn monroe.
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[jeharsy]

(IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/excl.gif) Personally I got extremely shocked by the recent death of Richard avedon, so i decided to create a mini-tribute on his life and relation with my muse Marilyn Monroe, I want to start this tribute by apologizing if I have any ortographic or punctuation mistakes but english is not my primary language so i'll do my best, hope you enjoy... (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/excl.gif)

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Richard Avedon

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(1923-2004)

Avedon was born in 1923 in New york city, he was one of the most important phtographers of all time, mostly known for his breath-taking black an whites he died at the age of 81 today Friday October First Two thousand four.

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Avedon's influence on photography was immense, and his sensuous fashion work helped create the era of supermodels like Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. But Avedon went in another direction with his portrait work, shooting unsparing and often unflattering shots of subjects from Marilyn Monroe to Michael Moore.


"The world's most famous photographer," trumpeted a 2002 story on Avedon in The New York Times. It was a title he wore for decades; back in 1958, he was named one of the world's 10 finest photographers by Popular Photography magazine.


Prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., staged major Avedon retrospectives, and his list of honors stretched across more than 50 years. In 2003, he received a National Arts Award for lifetime achievement.


During his career, Avedon worked for such photograph-driven publications as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and served as The New Yorker magazine's first staff photographer. His skill earned him another title: he was reputed to be the world's highest paid photographer.


"He's the most wonderful man in the business because he realizes that models are not just coat hangers," famed model Suzy Parker once said. An Avedon shot of Parker from 1959 was credited with igniting the bikini boom.


Avedon said his view of the world was literally affected by his nearsightedness. "I began trying to create an out-of-focus world — a heightened reality better than real, that suggests, rather than tells you," he once told The New Yorker in an interview.


Born in New York City in 1923, he experienced a strict upbringing in which his father — the founder of a dress shop called Avedon's Fifth Avenue — made him account for every penny of his five-cent weekly allowance.


In 1940, at age 17, Avedon dropped out of high school to run errands for a photographic company. Two years later he joined the U.S. Merchant Marine, receiving a Rolleiflex camera as a going-away gift from his father.


Following wartime service, Avedon became a professional photographer for the tony Bonwit Teller department stores, then moved to Harper's Bazaar, where he stayed for two decades.


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Finally my opinion, athough my opinion is not vey important I hope you read it..Richard Avedon a star himself met a wonderful and pure woman with a platinum head, her name was..Marilyn Monroe, he probably said hi in a cold way, but marilyn surely warmed everything up, they had a photo shoot and maybe a large talk and she went home, 1962 Marilyn monroe dies and 42 years later Richard avedon follows her, we will miss him so much because he was one of the most talented persons that had stepped on this earth, but someday we will be with him, such as he is with marilyn now, and with the pets he might had had, but one thing for sure his phototgraphs are something that will stay among us forever, I hope you understand what i ment to say in this short speech.

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Please light a candle for him tonight...

[chris]

one colorized pic to give him a special tribute


Chris

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[MM_Yvonne]

oh that`s so sad....

[marilyn]

when i heard he died i was very shocked he made just wonderfull photographs of Marilyn.
It's so sad (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

[Amber Nichols]

Jeharsy(Jesus)did u make that??? Nice tribute.....

[jeharsy]

no not really i didn't made it

[nathalie]

I heard this today.He was one of the most famous photographer of this time.He made photos with the most beautiful girls in the world(Naomi Campbell,....), with the Kennedy's family...The art has lost a great man.

[minx_dublin]

I came here to our group as soon as I heard.......when you think of how much we have admired his photos here.......he did nothing but good for Marilyn, all his photos of her were unique and had such a femininty about them.........may his legend live on like hers ;o)

[linkeando]

WHAT????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
i can´t belive it!

[Marloes]

Another great artist is gone... (IMG:http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/style_emoticons/default/no.gif) I hope he will be remembered always.

[chickeyonthego]

He may have passed on the the next life, but his legacy remains. We have his wonderful portraits of Marilyn, and others. He seemed to have an insight into Marilyn that enabled him to draw out from her something special in the photos her took. He was one of the greats.

[Christie]

omg, that is so sad all these great people just seem to be dieing! everything is just too sad!

RIP

[jeharsy]

oh yes, the tribute was made by me thanx, but i thought that you were talking if I made the collage with the photographs of avedon, yes I did the tribute.