Richard Avedon, one of the ten greatest photographers in the world, died october 1st, 2004. Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish-Russian family. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he worked on the school paper with James Baldwin.[2] After briefly attending Columbia University, he started as a photographer for the Merchant Marines in 1942, taking identification pictures of the ...

What amazes me is that LaChappelle pulls all these people. Courtney Love is really Courtney Love, and Hillary is really Hillary. Kanye West is Kanye West wearing a crown of thorns. I suppose there's no end to celebrity ego so people are willing to volunteer for his photographs, except LaChapelle is obviously skewering these figures. At the minimum he plays games of irony with their image or their legacy. He ...

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