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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 61 |
| Germany | 15 |
| Spain | 11 |
| United Kingdom | 7 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Fraenkel Gallery, USA |
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Deichtorhallen, Germany |
3 |
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Corkin Gallery, Canada |
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Biography: 
15.5.1923 Born in New York, NY (US)
1929 - 1941 Attended P.S. 6, De Witt Clinton High School, and Columbia University.
1937 - 1940 Co-editor, with James Baldwin, of The Magpie, De Witt Clinton High School literary magazine.
1941 Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools (The New York Times, May 24, 1941).
1942 - 1944 Served in the U.S. Merchant Marines.
1944 - 1950 Studied with Alexey Brodovitch at The Design Laboratory, New School for Social Research, New York City.
1945 - 1965 Staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Editors: Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, Alexey Brodovitch, Henry Wolf, Marvin Israel.
1947 - 1984 Photographed the French Collections in Paris for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
1949 - 1950 Theatre Arts, editor and photographer.
1950 Art Directors Club, New York, Highest Achievement Medal award.
1957 Visual consultant for the film Funny Face, Paramount Studios, directed by Stanley Donen, with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, based on Avedon's career.
1958 Popular Photography magazine, One of the World's Ten Greatest Photographers.
1959 Publication: OBSERVATIONS, photographs by Richard Avedon, text by Truman Capote, designed by Alexey Brodovitch, Simon and Schuster, Inc.
1962 Exhibition: "Richard Avedon," Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C., curated by Eugene Ostroff.
1963 Photographed the Civil Rights Movement in the South.
1964 Publication: NOTHING PERSONAL, photographs by Richard Avedon, text by James Baldwin, designed by Marvin Israel, Atheneum.
1966 - 1990 Staff photographer for Vogue, Editors: Alexander Liberman, Diana Vreeland.
1967 Conducted Master Class in Photography with Marvin Israel at the Avedon Studio.
1969 Photographed the Anti-War Movement across America, including the Chicago 7 during the Chicago Conspiracy Trial.
1970 Exhibition: "Richard Avedon," portrait retrospective 1945-1970 at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, curated by Ted Hartwell, designed by Marvin Israel.
Editor, DIARY OF A CENTURY, photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, designed by Bea Feitler, Viking Press.
1970 Photographed in Vietnam, including the Mission Council.
1973 Publication: ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THE FORMING OF A COMPANY, THE MAKING OF A PLAY photographs by Richard Avedon, text by Doon Arbus, designed by Ruth Ansel, E.P. Dutton.
1974 Exhibition: "Jacob Israel Avedon," portraits of the photographer's father, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, designed by Marvin Israel.
1975 Exhibition: "Portraits, 1969-1975," Marlborough Gallery, New York, designed by Marvin Israel.
Venues:
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, 1977
1976 Publication: PORTRAITS, photographs by Richard Avedon, introduction by Harold Rosenberg, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Publication: THE FAMILY, Rolling Stone magazine, October 21, special Bicentennial issue, photographed during the 1976 election campaign season, edited by Renata Adler.
THE FAMILY, National Magazine Award for Visual Excellence
1978 Exhibition: "Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977," fashion retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, curated by Colta Ives & Weston Naef.
Venues:
* Dallas Museum of Fine Arts;
* High Museum of Art, Atlanta;
* Isetan Museum, Tokyo.
Publication: AVEDON: PHOTOGRAPHS 1947-1977 by Richard Avedon, essay by Harold Brodkey, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, President's Fellow.
1980 Exhibition: "Avedon: 1946-1980," portraits, fashion, reportage, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, curated by David Ross.
University of California, Berkeley, California, Chancellor's Citation.
1982 Art Director's Club, New York, The Hall of Fame.
1985 Exhibition: "In the American West," Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, designed by Marvin Israel, curated by Marni Sandweiss.
Venues:
* Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.;
* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
* Art Institute of Chicago;
* Phoenix Art Museum;
* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston;
* The High Museum, Atlanta.
Publication: IN THE AMERICAN WEST 1979-1984, photographs by Richard Avedon, designed by Marvin Israel, Harry N. Abrams.
Began working for the French publication Egoïste, Editor & publisher: Nicole Wisniak
American Society of Magazine Photographers, Photographer of the Year
Maine Photographic Workshop Nikon Award for the Best Photographer Book of the Year.
Adweek magazine, Commercial Television Director of the Year.
Eastman Kodak Award of Excellence as Commercial Television Director of the Year.
1987 Harvard University, Certificate of Recognition, Visiting Artist 1986-87.
1989 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), Lifetime Achievement Award.
Royal College of Art, London, Honorary Doctorate.
1991 Installation "Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin, New Year's Eve, December 31, 1989 - January 1, 1990" at the Carnegie International 1991, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Photography Prize.
1992 Conducted a series of Master Classes in Photography, under the auspices of the International Center of Photography in New York.
First staff photographer for The New Yorker, Editor: Tina Brown, Editor: David Remnick
1993 International Center of Photography Master of Photography Award.
Kenyon College, Ohio, Honorary Doctorate
Publication: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY RICHARD AVEDON photographs by Richard Avedon, designed by Mary Shanahan, Random House and Eastman Kodak.
1994 Exhibition: "Richard Avedon Evidence 1944-1994," retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Jane Livingston, designed by Mary Shanahan.
Venues:
* Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
* Palazzo Reale, Milan;
* National Portrait Gallery, London;
* Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis.
Publication: EVIDENCE 1944-1994 RICHARD AVEDON, Whitney Museum of American Art, exhibition catalogue, essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, edited by Mary Shanahan.
Parsons School of Design, New York, Honorary Doctorate.
EVIDENCE is awarded the Prix Nadar by the Bibliotheque Nationale for the best photographic book of 1994.
1995 "In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort," a fable photographed and created for The New Yorker, November 6, 1995 issue, in collaboration with Doon Arbus.
American Masters Documentary, "Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light," written and directed by Helen Whitney, produced by Susan Lacy for PBS.
1996 Mental Health Association of New York City, Humanitarian Award.
1998 The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.
1999 Publication: AVEDON THE SIXTIES Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, Random House, Inc.
Exhibition "Richard Avedon Early Portraits," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
2000 Exhibition "About Faces," including Richard Avedon portraiture, Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, Lifetime Achievement Award
Photo District News: Most Influential Photographer of the Last Twenty Years
Deutsches Centrum für Photographie, Berlin Photography Prize 2000
2001 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Exhibition "Richard Avedon: Made in France," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
Publication: RICHARD AVEDON: MADE IN FRANCE, essay by Judith Thurman, designed by Mary Shanahan and Gregory Wakabayashi, Fraenkel Gallery.
Exhibition: "In the American West,"
Venues:
* Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany;
* Diputacion de Granada, Granada, Spain;
* Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain;
* Fundacion la Caixa, Madrid, Spain.
2002 Exhibition: "Richard Avedon Portraits," portrait retrospective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, curated by Maria Morris Hambourg & Mia Fineman.
Publication: RICHARD AVEDON PORTRAITS, in conjunction with exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; essay by Richard Avedon, essay by Maria Morris Hambourg & Mia Fineman, designed by Mary Shanahan, Harry N. Abrams.
2003 Exhibition: "Richard Avedon," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
Performed role of Mr. Apology in "Mr. Apology" by Alec Wilkinson, The Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York.
Royal Photographic Society, 150th Anniversary Medal.
Arts & Business Council, Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts.
Americans for the Arts, National Arts Award: Lifetime Achievement.
1.10.2004 Died in Texas (US)
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Public exhibitions 122
until 5.4.2010
until 17.1.2010
until 10.1.2010
until 29.11.
Solo shows 30
2009
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| Avedon Fashion 1944–2000 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946 – 2004 - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
2008
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| Richard Avedon: Performance - PaceWildenstein - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY |
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| Richard Avedon: Performance - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Richard Avedon – Fotografien 1946–2004 - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Richard Avedon - GRAM - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI |
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| Richard Avedon - Portraits of Power - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Richard Avedon - Photographies 1946-2004 - Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris |
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| Richard Avedon - Fotografie 1946-2004 - Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan |
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| Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
2007
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| Richard Avedon, Photographs 1946-2004 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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| In the American West - Photographs by Richard Avedon - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Richard Avedon - Photographien - Camera Work AG, Berlin |
2006
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| In the American West - Photographs by Richard Avedon - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| Eye of the beholder - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon - Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| In the American West - Photographs by Richard Avedon - Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH |
2005
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| Richard Avedon - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Richard Avedon - Andy Warhol and the Factory [1969], The Family [1976] - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2002
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| Richard Avedon - In the American West - CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona |
2001
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| Richard Avedon - Made in France - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Avedon’s American West - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
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| Richard Avedon - In the american west - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
1999
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| Richard Avedon - Early Portraits - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Richard Avedon - Camera Work AG, Berlin |
1994
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| Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944 - 1994 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Richard Avedon - Hasselblad Center, Göteborg |
1985
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| In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1974
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| Jacob Israel Avedon: Photographed by Richard Avedon - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 88
2009
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| Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Immaginare New York. Fotografie dalla collezione del MoMA - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| The Fallern Angels - Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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| Seeing Ourselves - Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Fundacion Canal, Madrid |
2008
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| Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Fotógrafos da Vida Moderna - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo |
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| In the photographic image - The Columns, Seoul |
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| Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| Archetypes and Icons - Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| De lo humano. Fotografía internacional 1950-2000 - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| Street & Studio: an urban history of photography - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Arbus/Avedon/Model - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image) - MUCA Roma - Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City |
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| Dr. Reinold in Memoriam - galerie skala, Cologne |
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| Somebody - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| The presence of portraits - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON |
2007
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Warhol sobre Warhol - La Casa Encendida, Madrid |
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| MODE:BILDER - NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf |
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| Contemporary, Cool and Collected - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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| The Naked Portrait 1900 –2007 - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England) |
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| Marilyn Monroe, Life as a Legend - Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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| A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| The Naked Portrait - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Summer of Love - Art of the Psychedelic Era - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Marilyn Monroe - Life as a Legend - The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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| Concept: Photography – Dialogues & Attitudes - Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), New York City, NY |
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| Igor Strawinsky - ich muss die kunst anfassen - Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| Human Interest - Photoessays from the Collection - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
2006
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| Speaking with Hands - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow |
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| Life as a Legend - Marilyn Monroe - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Americans - Masterpieces of American Photography from 1940 until now - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL |
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| Brighton Photo Biennial 2006 - Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton (England) |
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| The Heartbeat of Fashion - Sammlung F. C. Gundlach - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
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| Marilyn - The Women's Museum, Dallas, TX |
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| A Gallery in Ink - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Missing Peace - Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Speaking with hands - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| American Icons - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| Seeing Ourselves - American Faces - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Der Pirelli-Kalender; Provokation und Mythos - Berlinische Galerie, Berlin |
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| Marilyn - Mythos, Legende und Ikone - Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Rostros y Máscaras - Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca |
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| Sans Regard - La collection Dancing Bear de W. M. Hunt - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| I wanna be loved by you - Photograohs of Marilyn Monroe - Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
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| Portrait und Menschenbild - SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne |
2005
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| Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Perspectives 149 - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll! - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Rostros y Máscaras - Fotografías de la Colección Ordóñez-Falcón - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| Rostros y Máscaras - Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca |
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| De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - New Galerie de France, Paris |
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| Hablando con las manos - Fotografías de la Colección Buhl - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao |
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| Sujeto - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| From the Source, Fashion Photographs - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| Fabulous Photographic Ephemera - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Pas Moi Sans Eux - Colección Pierre Borhan - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe - Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
2004
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| About Face - Photographic Portraits from the Collection - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Photography from the Book to the Museum - MNAC Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona |
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| Das Wunder Mensch / Parameter of Life - MMK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau |
2003
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| A Clear Vision: Photographic Works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
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| Table Turners: Album Covers by Artist Who Hardly do Album Covers - Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| "Marilyn. The life of a legend" - County Hall Gallery, London (England) |
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| VANITY FAIR - Torch Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Affinities... Now and Then - H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2002
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| Transformer II - Air de Paris, Paris |
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| Americans - Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Photographie - MMK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau |
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| Seeing things - Victoria and Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
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| Accrochage d´hiver - Photographies contemporaines - Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris |
2001
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| Dressing Up - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| The Contemporary Face - Von Pablo Picasso bis Alex Katz - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
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| More than One - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Tentatives d`évasion I - New Galerie de France, Paris |
1999
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| The Changing Face of Family - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Private Collection - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
1998
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| Fünf Komma Fünf - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
1996
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| A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
1982
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musee du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, QC |
1981
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1975
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| Fifty Years of Photography - Women Observed, As Seen in Vogue 1924-1974 - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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Austria
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Germany
Italy
Japan
| | Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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United Kingdom
| | Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Cook Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Staley - Wise, New York City, NY
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| | Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
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Public collections 21
Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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Denmark
| | Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
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France
| | Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône
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Germany
Japan
| | Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
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Spain
| | Fundacio Suñol, Barcelona
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Switzerland
| | Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne
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| | Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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United Kingdom
| | NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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| | ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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| | Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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