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PHOTOGRAPHER

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

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Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Avedon has received more than 1,325,977 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Richard Avedon is the 23rd most popular photographer (up from 24th in 2019), the 1,759th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,753rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Photographer.

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  • 30

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  • 5.20

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  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Richard Avedon ranks 23 out of 105. Before him are Nobuyoshi Araki, Brassaï, Wilhelm von Gloeden, André Kertész, Gunter Sachs, and Josef Koudelka. After him are August Sander, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, Peter Lindbergh, and Irving Penn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Richard Avedon ranks 69. Before him are Stig Dagerman, Bert Trautmann, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Victoria de los Ángeles, Norman Mailer, and Reinhart Koselleck. After him are Lloyd Shapley, Leonid Gaidai, Ernest Mandel, André Gorz, Sergey Akhromeyev, and Hwang Jang-yop. Among people deceased in 2004, Richard Avedon ranks 53. Before him are Nicolai Ghiaurov, Otto Kumm, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Elmer Bernstein, Fanny Blankers-Koen, and Ko Yong-hui. After him are Johnny Ramone, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Raymond Goethals, Serge Reggiani, Jean Rouch, and Lennart Bernadotte.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Avedon ranks 1,759 out of 18,182. Before him are Isamu Noguchi (1904), LeBron James (1984), Laura Dern (1967), John Carradine (1906), Thornton Wilder (1897), and John Robert Schrieffer (1931). After him are Cus D'Amato (1908), Lloyd Shapley (1923), Anna Nicole Smith (1967), Robert Reich (1946), Tex Avery (1908), and Loretta Young (1913).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Richard Avedon ranks 5. Before him are Vivian Maier (1926), Alfred Stieglitz (1864), Diane Arbus (1923), and Annie Leibovitz (1949). After him are Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Irving Penn (1917), Lewis Hine (1874), Edward Weston (1886), Berenice Abbott (1898), Paul Strand (1890), and Carl Van Vechten (1880).

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