Example sentences for: avedon

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

  • And how would one classify the brilliant hoax Avedon perpetrated in the pages of Harper's Bazaar in 1962--a series of garish, hectic, faux-tabloid shots of comedian Mike Nichols and model Suzy Parker cavorting through Europe?

  • (The '60s, by the way, were not an era of ripped abs.) Not that Avedon's omphalic interests have been confined to the famous.

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

  • He understands that self-exposure, an organizing principle of our politics and our culture, is a defense mechanism: The selves we shamelessly exhibit to the world are screens, and Avedon uses his camera to penetrate them.

  • In 1974, he exhibited a series of deathbed portraits of his father, a New York clothing retailer, which struck many viewers (including Avedon's son) as an act of unchecked Oedipal hostility.


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