Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was an American Photographer and pioneer in the field of fashion and portrait photography. He brought new life to the portrait genre with his highly defined black and white portraits in which the very essence of his subjects seemed captured. He was notorious for his famous subjects: Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, The Beatles, President Eisenhower and long etcetera.
But he was also a cultural anthropologist. In his exhibits you can see decades of American culture pass through your eyes as if he had also captured the essence of the American culture.
You can enjoy the work of this master at the current SFMOMA exhibit or here
