Richard Avedon

My husband just turned me on to a fantastic series of interviews between Charlie Rose and Richard Avedon. Once again I find it fascinating to hear someone who has made a life-long career out of getting reactions or moments of "truth" out of other people talk about what that process is like for him. 

Photography, especially portraiture, has always been one of my great loves. Like a good interview those photographs have the potential to express and show rare moments of clarity with the subject. Richard Avedon was a true master of capturing these elusive moments. He had the gifts of not only knowing who was going to be an interesting subject, but also how to draw them out to snap that mili-second where their gaze or angle of their head expressed exactly who they were in that moment. An alchemy that few truly achieve.

This is another marathon interview, but if you are a photography fan these are must see moments with Avedon, who was notoriously shy and gave few interviews.