Instead, Avedon's models laughed, danced, played in the rain, embraced athletes and engaged in other emotional vignettes. There, for two decades, he elevated fashion photography to an art form, shattering the conventional mold that models should project indifference. After the war, Avedon became the chief photographer for Harper's Bazaar in the late '40s. With his father's going-away gift in hand-a Rolleiflex camera-he applied to the Merchant Marines' photography branch and among other assignments, took identification photographs of personnel. A prize-winning poet in high school, Avedon dropped out and joined the Merchant Marines in 1942. "No one has given a nation a more wide-ranging, disciplined photographic document of itself," John Lahr noted in The Times of London. The New York City native was a restless and relentless chronicler of our time for more than 50 years. Richard Avedon was a Jewish American photographer and one of the most prominent photographers of the 21 st century.
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