![]() ![]() Avedon’s winning entry in the 1941 Scholastic Art & Writing competition was a poem called “Wanderlust,” in which the narrator appears eager to leave home in search of new people, places, and experiences despite those who caution him to take a more conventional path. It’s a tiny factoid that bobs like a little buoy in the great sea of accolades that has surrounded his body of work as a photographer-one he began creating in earnest at Harper’s Bazaar in the waning days of the Second World War and continued to restlessly reshape and reimagine until his death in 2004 at the age of 81. ![]() Richard Avedon once won a teen poetry contest. Photomat, Richard Avedon, photographer, with James Baldwin, writer, New York, September 1, 1964. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |