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The show

The exhibition promoted by the Municipality of Milan-Culture , produced and organized by Palazzo Reale and Skira Editore in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography and the Richard Avedon Foundation, is curated by Rebecca Senf, head of the collection of the Center for Creative Photography and sees as main Versace partner and Vogue Italia media partner.

The review will allow to deepen the innovative characteristics of Avedon's art that have made him one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century ; if on the one hand, it has revolutionized the way of photographing models, transforming them from static subjects to actresses protagonists of the set, also showing their human side, on the other hand, his surprising portraits of celebrities, in black and white and often of great trained, they are able to reveal the innermost psychological side of the person portrayed.


A section is dedicated to the collaboration between Richard Avedon and Gianni Versace, which began with the campaign for the 1980 spring / summer collection, which marked the designer's debut, up to that of the 1998 spring / summer collection, the first designed by Donatella Versace.

Avedon's work for Versace is the representation of how that unique relationship that is sometimes created between designer and photographer can produce images destined for an area out of time, definitively beyond the circumscribed story they were originally intended for, linked to seasonality. fashion, to revolutionize the global narrative. Thanks to his gaze, Avedon was one of the few photographers to interpret Gianni Versace's avant-garde, illustrating the style and elegance of the Italian designer, as well as the radicalism of his fashion.


The abstract language of Avedon acts in a compressed space that enhances the figures making them absolute and making the choreographies of the bodies of some of the most celebrated supermodels of the time explode, in convulsive, syncopated movements, which highlight the shape and materiality of the clothes they wear, as in the case of the campaign for the 1993 spring / summer collection, starring Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Kate Moss, Aya Thorgren, Shalom Harlow .

The exhibition itinerary, divided into ten sections - The Artist, The Premise of the show, Early Fashion, Actors and Directors, Visual Artists, Performing Artists / Musicians and writers / Poets, Avedon's People, Politics, Late Fashion, Versace - is built around to the two most characteristic figures of his research: fashion photographs and portraits.

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