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To: Neocon who wrote (80852)	6/6/2000 2:58:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (3) of 108807

I wouldn't strictly speaking call Avedon a commercial photographer. Certainly, he made lots of good money doing fashion spreads and celebrity work (perhaps the most famous are the psychedelic Beatle portraits in Life Magazine), but most of what critics consider his "important" work (such as his brutal "American West" work, or many of his photos from the Sixties, Vietnam etc.) is not commercial in nature. However, the fact that he did so much commercial work gave him a lukewarm reception among "purists." A quotation from one critic regarding his fashion work from the fifties and early sixties: "Avedon's increasingly parodistic magazine work often left - or maybe fed - an impression that its author was living beneath his creative means." In any case, lots of Renaissance painters made quite a decent living doing spreads, some of the most tedious of which you can find in hall after hall after hall of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I know this is rank heresy, but last time I was there, I thought I would pass out if I saw just one more portrait of a Dutch guy in a lace collar.

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