Richard Avedon
Eine Retrospektive
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Richard Avedon: Richard Avedon, Self-portrait, Provo, Utah, August 20, 1980
© 2008 The Richard Avedon Foundation
The exhibition 'Richard Avedon: Fotografien 1946-2004' ['Richard Avedon: photographs from 1946 to 2004'] is the first retrospective exhibition of the American star photographer to be shown in Germany. More than 200 of his photographs are on view, including many of his epoch-making shots like the picture of the celebrated model Dovima between elephants on sawdust and hay (1948), the famous group portrait 'Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory' (1969), measuring 10 by 3 metres, and the photo of Charlie Chaplin making devil's horns with his hands on his forehead a gesture expressing his goodbye to the America of the McCarthy era. For an exhibition in Berlin, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Avedon's series 'Brandenburg Gate', taken on New Year's Eve 1989, is particularly interesting.
For more than 50 years Richard Avedon was one of the most important photographers in the fashion industry. He made a name for himself back in the early 1950s as one of the leading fashion photographers in the world, working for American fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
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Artist(s)
Richard Avedon
Duration of the exhibition
19.10.2008 - 19.01.2009
Vernissage
18.10.2008, 18 h
Opening times
Mi-Mo 10-20 h, Dienstags geschlossen
Location
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstr. 7
10963 Berlin
T 0049 30 254860
Public transport connections
U Potsdamer Platz;
S Anhalter Bahnhof / Potsdamer Platz;
Bus M29, M41
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