Richard Avedon Photographs April 13, 2010

Two important photographs by Richard Avedon will be on view in the Wefald Gallery. Avedon gained attention during the late twentieth century for his large-scale, black-and-white portrait photographs of celebrities and working-class Americans. Many of his photographs appeared in national magazines such as 'Vogue,' 'Harper's Bazaar,' and 'Life.' One writer has referred to Avedon's formal, yet powerful images as "veritable symbols of the contrasts of American life."