Fashion history- Richard Avedon comes to Fire Island 1946.

Jul 4

Written By Robert Bonanno

Richard Avedon by Paul Himmel 1946

Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance.

Richard Avedon and Doe PHOTOGRAPH BY LILLIAN BASSMAN..jpg — Richard Avedon

and his young wife, Doe, had no idea what they were getting into when they agreed to take a beach-house share in the summer of 1946 with his boss at Harper’s Bazaar, Lillian Bassman, and her husband, photographer Paul Himmel, in Cherry Grove.

Richard and Doe Avedon, Photo by Paul Himmel, Fire Island Ferry, Late 1940s.

All photo’s by Bassman-Himmel studio.

Ford model Natálie Nickerson, on Avedon’s first Harper’s Bazaar cover, January 1947, epitomized the photographer’s vision of “the modern woman”.jpg

Richard AvedonDoe AvedonHarpers BazaarPaul HimmelLillian BassmanCherry GroveVanity Fair

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