Richard Avedon
Sign in to saveAmerican photographer (1923–2004)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 May 1923
- Died
- 1 October 2004
- Works
- 56
Top works
- Jacques Henri Lartigue
- American photography 19
- Avedon
- Richard Avedon : the Kennedys
- Performance
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,432x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,281x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,681x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,337x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1923-05-15 ) May 15, 1923, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- October 1, 2004 (2004-10-01) (aged 81), San Antonio , Texas , U.S.
- Alma mater
- The New School for Social Research
- Spouses
- Doe Avedon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1949 ) Evelyn Franklin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 )
- Relatives
- Michael Avedon (grandson)
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".
Early life and education
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