Example sentences for: avedon

How can you use “avedon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While he denies that he has ever been observant, Avedon confesses to vague spiritual leanings.

  • If you can conjure a mental image of Marilyn Monroe, William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, or Marianne Moore, chances are you're thinking of an Avedon photograph.

  • In Helen Whitney's PBS documentary Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light , he is confronted by Sandra Bennet, who was 12 when he put her on the cover of In the American West in a halter top and denim overalls.

  • And then there are the bellybuttons: On one page Truman Capote, no longer the slender, bow-tied manchild Avedon had photographed a decade earlier, pulls open his dark shirt to show his navel, a winking eye in an expanse of pale flesh.

  • Avedon has done much to revive the portrait as a central genre of photographic art.


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