Gagosian announced "Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon", at the gallery on rue de Ponthieu, Paris, from January 22 to March 2, 2024.&nbsp;

Photography for me has always been a sort of double-sided mirror. The one side reflecting my subject, the other reflecting myself. &mdash;Richard Avedon

The exhibition marks the centenary of Avedon&rsquo;s birth in May 1923. Often attributed to his photographs, the word&nbsp;iconic&nbsp;applies equally to their maker, and is used here to illuminate his exceptional influence on culture today.
Soon after establishing his New York studio in the mid-1940s, Avedon developed an inventive, sophisticated, and instantly recognizable style. As a staff photographer for&nbsp;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar&nbsp;(1944&ndash;65), and later&nbsp;Vogue&nbsp;(1966&ndash;88), he produced many of the publications&rsquo; quintessential images. As Avedon&rsquo;s reputation grew, the defining figures of the twentieth century&mdash;performers, writers, artists, intellectuals, and other notables&mdash;were drawn to see themselves through his lens. Avedon produced images that became synonymous with the legends of his sitters. Featuring his photographs of subjects both renowned and obscure, the exhibition highlights the innovative role Avedon played as a creator of icons.

Avedon&rsquo;s most incisive portraits manifest his uncanny ability to elicit the singular vitality of his sitters, inscribing their charged essences&mdash;even those of the already famous&mdash;in decisive frames extracted from the larger arc of living history. His portrayals of Marian Anderson (1955), Marilyn Monroe (1957), Bob Dylan (1965), and the Beatles (1967) are as indelible as they are timeless. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the way I&nbsp;look,&rdquo; Harold Brodkey remarked about his portrait by Avedon, &ldquo;but the way I&nbsp;am.&rdquo; With an unerring eye, impeccable timing, and a prescient sensibility, Avedon vaulted the models Dovima (1955), China Machado (1958), and Penelope Tree (1967) to the pinnacle of their profession. He also recorded incomparable images of Charlie Chaplin (1952), Jacqueline Kennedy (1961), Andy Warhol (1969), and Tina Turner (1971) at pivotal moments in their storied lives.
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 Opening during the 2024 Haute Couture Week in Paris,&nbsp;Iconic Avedon&nbsp;is centered by Avedon&rsquo;s deep connection to the city that was an early proving ground. Beginning in 1947, the photographer returned regularly to Paris to photograph collections for&nbsp;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar&nbsp;during couture week, working with editors Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, and Nancy White, and designers such as Christian Dior, not only to create a bold new vision of the modern woman but also to restore luster to the great city after World War II. Portraying models in motion and on the street, liberated from the confines of the studio, he made many of his best-known pictures in Paris, including&nbsp;Dovima with elephants&nbsp;(1955) and&nbsp;Brigitte Bardot&nbsp;(1959).&nbsp;In midcentury Paris he also captured, with &eacute;lan, now-classic images of Dorian Leigh (1949), Suzy Parker (1957&ndash;58), Coco Chanel (1958), and Alberto Giacometti (1958) that appear in the exhibition.
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Iconic Avedon, with exhibition design by C&eacute;cile Degos, follows the 2023 exhibition&nbsp;Avedon 100&nbsp;at the gallery in New York, which featured photographs selected by over 150 prominent artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and fashion world representatives, who elaborate in the accompanying catalogue on the impact of Avedon&rsquo;s work today.

ICONIC AVEDON: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF RICHARD AVEDON
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January 22&ndash;March 2, 2024 4 rue de Ponthieu, Paris

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