On the centennial of the photographer’s birth, Richard Avedon: MURALS will bring together three of these monumental works, some as wide as 35 feet. Facing down groups of the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians, he made huge photomural portraits, befitting their outsized cultural influence. Instead of dancing around his subjects from behind a viewfinder, as he had in his lively fashion pictures, he could now stand beside a stationary camera and meet them head-on. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic. After a five-year hiatus, the photographer started making portraits again, this time with a new camera and a new sense of scale. In 1969, Richard Avedon was at a crossroads.
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