Richard Avedon Portraits by Richard Avedon

We are honored to share this estimable achievement with our audiences.'Īmong the highlights of Richard Avedon: Portraits will be stunning portrayals of 20th-century artistic, intellectual, and political figures including Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Charlie Chaplin, Dwight D. Much like the great 19th-century French photographer, Nadar, whose telling portraits of rare individuals captured the creative genius of his generation, so Avedon, a century later, collected the key players and directed them in aīrilliant portrait of an era that was questioning, unruly, and self-consciously alive, like all periods of radical growth. Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, commented: 'Richard Avedon's work now takes its proper place in the larger history of art, representing the culmination of the time-honored tradition of public portraiture. The exhibition, which will remain on view through January 5, 2003, will span Avedon's entire career, from his earliest portraits made in the late 1940s through his most recent work.

Richard Avedon: Portraits will feature his most classic and penetrating images, documenting as never before this artist's dazzling reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture. One hundred eighty portraits by acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon-a vast collective portrait of America in the second half of the 20th century-will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 26.

September 26, 2002-JanuTisch Galleries, Second Floor

Richard Avedon Portraits by Richard Avedon