American photographer; a high-school classmate of James Baldwin and his collaborator on the 1964 book Nothing Personal.
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Avedon was hired as special visual consultant on Funny Face (1957), whose story was drawn from his own early career and whose photographer, played by Fred Astaire, carries a version of his name. He designed the opening titles, took the photographs the film treats as Avery's, and worked with Stanley Donen on the montage of Hepburn photographed across Paris.
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Classmates on the Magpie editorial board at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In 1964 they published Nothing Personal, Avedon's photographs alongside Baldwin's text on American identity in the civil rights era.
James Baldwin and the photographer Richard Avedon had been at the same Bronx high school. Thirty years later they made a book about what America looked like in 1964.
Collaborated with
Avedon was hired as special visual consultant on Funny Face (1957), whose story was drawn from his own early career and whose photographer, played by Fred Astaire, carries a version of his name. He designed the opening titles, took the photographs the film treats as Avery's, and worked with Stanley Donen on the montage of Hepburn photographed across Paris.
Collaborated with
Classmates on the Magpie editorial board at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In 1964 they published Nothing Personal, Avedon's photographs alongside Baldwin's text on American identity in the civil rights era.