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Richard Avedon, Revisited: A New Photo Exhibition Captures the Darkness and Light of Hollywood’s Elite
“(re)Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965” is a Smithsonian exhibition that features portraits of celebrities.
Image Credit: Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History/Photograph by Richard Avedon/@amhistorymuseum Alfred Hitchcock looks heavenward, seeking inspiration or maybe salvation, in a 1956 portrait that plays against the filmmaker’s reputation as the “master of the macabre.” It was a busy period for the director, who made 11 films during the decade, including such classics as “To Catch a Thief,” “North by Northwest” and “Vertigo.” Image Credit: Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History / Photograph by Richard Avedon/@amhistorymuseum Bob Dylan was fine-tuning “Bringing It All Back Home” in 1965 when Avedon captured him walking down a rain-flecked street in New York. Image Credit: Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History / Photograph by Richard Avedon/@amhistorymuseum Civil Rights organizer Julian Bond is flanked by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in this 1963 photo taken in Atlanta.
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