Example sentences for: avedon

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

  • There is remarkable continuity among Avedon's celebrity portraits, his fashion layouts, and documentary work such as the pictures of Sicilian street children and Louisiana mental patients he took in the 1950s.

  • (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 is Mephistopheles with a camera--an exemplary modern artist.

  • For Avedon, the camera is the true agent of immortality, which his subjects accept on his terms: at the cost of their souls.

  • But while Avedon's portraits clearly represent his bid for artistic immortality--a bid he has assiduously devoted much of the past decade to mounting--they represent only one facet of his work.


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