richard avedon s in the american west

No one has smiled in an Avedon portrait for a long time. If there was pleasure in their lives it left them in the act of posing, or rather, confronting his lens. One sitter, de Kooning, told Harold Rosenberg that Avedon "snapped the picture. Then he asked 'Why don't you smile?' So I smiled but the picture was done already...." The photograph of de Kooning and the quote appeared in Avedon's Portraits (I976), an image-gallery of famous people in the arts and media. A disproportionate number of the9449

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