![]() Uniting the murals with session outtakes and contemporaneous projects, the exhibition will track Avedon’s evolving approach to group portraiture, through which he transformed the conventions of the genre. ![]() The exhibition will be organized around three monumental photomurals in The Met collection (the largest measures nearly 10 x 35 feet) that depict the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians. Focused on the short period between 19, this exhibition will explore a critical juncture in the artist’s career, when, after a hiatus from portraiture, he began working with a new camera and a new sense of scale. ![]() ![]() Although Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer in the late 1940s, his greatest achievement was his stunning reinvention of the photographic portrait. To celebrate the centennial of Richard Avedon’s birth in 1923, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a selection of the photographer’s most innovative group portraits in the exhibition Richard Avedon: MURALS, opening January 19, 2023. From left: Paul Morrissey, director Joe Dallesandro, actor Candy Darling, actress Eric Emerson, actor Jay Johnson, actor tom Hompertz, actor Gerard Malanga, poet Viva, actress Morrissey Taylor Mead, actor Brigid Polk, actress, Dallesandro Andy Warhol, artist. ![]() Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol & member of the Factory, NYC, October 30, 1969. ![]()
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