A partir de 1979 y durante cinco años el fotógrafo Richard Avedon recorrió el Oeste norteamericano fotografiando a aquellos seres anónimos que la Historia no citaría, oficinistas, vagabundos, mineros, cajeras, prostitutas..., captándolos al aire libre, con luz natural y con un fondo blanco que solía ser una sábana, en retratos sobrios y frontales que los dignificaba, imprimiendo las imágenes después en gran formato para elevarlos mediante un objeto artístico casi totémico.
From 1979 and for five years photographer Richard Avedon traveled through the American West photographing those anonymous civilians that History does not cite, office workers, drifters, miners, cashiers or prostitutes... capturing them outdoors with natural light and a white background, usually a sheet, in sober and frontal portraits that dignified the subject, printing the images on large format raising that people artistically to an almost totemic item.
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Richard Avedon Foundation
Richard Avedon's appartment
Fine Art Photography
Fraenkel Gallery
"Un retrato fotográfico es también una imagen de alguien que sabe que se le está fotografiando, y cómo esa persona usa esa consciencia es tan importante como qué aspecto tiene o lo que lleva puesto. Está implicado en lo que está pasando y tiene incidencia en el resultado final", Richard Avedon. "A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result."
From 1979 and for five years photographer Richard Avedon traveled through the American West photographing those anonymous civilians that History does not cite, office workers, drifters, miners, cashiers or prostitutes... capturing them outdoors with natural light and a white background, usually a sheet, in sober and frontal portraits that dignified the subject, printing the images on large format raising that people artistically to an almost totemic item.
Enlaces seleccionadosSelected Links
Richard Avedon Foundation
Richard Avedon's appartment
Fine Art Photography
Fraenkel Gallery
"Un retrato fotográfico es también una imagen de alguien que sabe que se le está fotografiando, y cómo esa persona usa esa consciencia es tan importante como qué aspecto tiene o lo que lleva puesto. Está implicado en lo que está pasando y tiene incidencia en el resultado final", Richard Avedon. "A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result."
