Portraiture - Richard Avedon

Another photographer I have chosen to look at is Richard Avedon. I join the many people who like his work and are inspired by it. His iconic images have become very well known in the fashion industry and beyond. There are so many of his images I could have picked to write about because they are quite different compared with other photographers as he chooses the pictures that are deliberatley different. For example the image of Marylin Monroe below. He took this image after a long days shoot, were she was feeling exhauseted, out of all the images that day were she was smiling, laughing and being herself, he chose to capture this moment, where she takes a second to herself. I really like this image because I think any other photographer would have chose an image of her were she is smiling, how she is normally portrayed and how the public saw her. This photograph
depicts and shows a different side to her. He has caught her in thought and her expression is just that.

I found this image,below, on the websire provided. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
http://fcpunitfour.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/richard-avedon.html