# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-avedon
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:54.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-avedon"
name: "Richard Avedon"
slug: "richard-avedon"
description: "Richard Avedon 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. An obituary published in The New York Times said that \"his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century\"."
tagline: "American photographer (1923–2004)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1923-05-15"
deathDate: "2004-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.richardavedon.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump