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But these photographs, seen against the backdrop of Avedon's protean career, seem strangely cold and disembodied.
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.
It says a great deal about Richard Avedon, and about the civilization he has documented for more than half a century, that he has published a fat volume of pictures of other people and called it An Autobiography . Photography is a relentlessly objective art, ours is a relentlessly subjective age, and Avedon has meticulously organized his art around this paradox.
Rather than record the drama of Vietnam, Avedon invited his subjects--journalists, soldiers, aid workers, activists, and ordinary Vietnamese--to re-enact it.