‘I’m looking for faces which surprise me’: how Richard Avedon photographed the soul of his subjects
Ron Howard’s illuminating Netflix documentary looks back on the career of one of America’s most inventive and versatile photographers Richard Avedon had only taken a couple of frames when he accidentally hit his head on a light being held above him.
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- There’s only four frames out of a roll of 12 frames,” he recalls in a phone interview.
“I realised he knew at that moment that something had happened, a mistake had happened: he hit his head and the Dalai Lama lit up.” Continue reading...
That was when Avedon snapped two more frames and announced: “Oh, I got it!” Avedon’s assistant, Sebastian Kim, was baffled.
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