![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The 1960s marked artistic turning points for both artists as they moved away increasingly from strictly commercial work towards their mature independent styles. Avedon’s distinctive gelatin-silver prints and Warhol's boldly colored silkscreens variously depict many of the same recognizable faces, including Marella Agnelli, Bianca Jagger, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Rudolf Nureyev.īoth Avedon and Warhol originated from modest beginnings and had tremendous commercial success working for major magazines in New York, beginning in the 1940s. Portraiture was a shared focus of both artists, and they made use of repetition and serialization: Avedon through the reproducible medium of photography, and in his group photographs, for which he meticulously positioned, collaged, and reordered images Warhol in his method of stacked screenprinting, which enabled the consistent reproduction of an image. They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ![]() My camera and I, together we have the power to confer or to take away. ![]()
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