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Art: Photography

Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004

Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of the elephants around her. A beekeeper covered in his buzzing flock. These are some of the countless decisive moments caught by Richard Avedon's camera. SFMOMA's huge retrospective presents the largest American survey of Avedon's work to date, from his early, revolutionary fashion work at Harper's Bazaar and the countless '60s portraits of political and cultural movers and shakers, to his magnum opus documenting America's surreal frontier, In the American West, and his final portraits for The New Yorker. Whether photographing pop royalty, politicians, or ranch hands, Avedon followed Aleister Crowley's dictum that "every man, every woman, is a star."

– Matt Sussman

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