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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1994
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IF WHAT you're looking for in a photograph is a heart-stopping
detail (a scar above the eyebrow faint as a silk thread, the white
trace of a missing wedding band on a tan hand), then Richard Avedon
is not your man. His pictures are the opposite of casual snaps
brimming over with unconscious life. You'd never look at his
pictures in search of a potential lover or to learn something about
another country or as though you were thumbing through someone's
family memories; his work isn't pornographic or informative or an
equivalent to an album of souvenirs.
His images are composed, manipulated and artful; no incidental
is accidental. His faces and bodies are inscribed against a
trademark seamless ...