A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain

The New Yorker: Democracy - Richard Avedon

Democracy by Richard Avedon

A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain
by Winthrop Sargeant

Richard Avedon’s portrait photography captured with striking originality the worlds of art, politics, and power. He revolutionized fashion photography, and, in this Profile from 1958, Winthrop Sargeant chronicles Avedon’s early works.

"And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible." - Richard Avedon