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richard avedon
was born in new york on may 15, 1923 of russian-jewish
immigrant parents.
he attended dewitt clinton high school in the bronx,
but never completed an academic education.
in 1940, at age 17, avedon dropped out of high school
and joined the merchant marine's photographic section,
taking personnel identification photos. later, he went on
several missions to photograph shipwrecks.
upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer
in a department store. Initially, avedon made
his living primarily through work in advertising.
as a staff photographer for harper's bazaar and later
for vogue, avedon became well known for his stylistically
innovative fashion work, often set in vivid and surprising
locales.
if a day goes by without my doing something related to
photography, it's as though I've neglected something
essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to
wake up,' he said in 1970.
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