Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light

USA 1995 World Premiere

Director/Producer: Helen Whitney
Screenwriters: Helen Whitney, Jane Barnes
Cinematographer: Terry Hopkins
Editor: Ted Winterburn
Print Source: American Masters
90 minutes

Arguably the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th Century, Richard Avedon is himself the subject of this insightful exploration of an artist's life and work focusing on the ways in which he revolutionized the whole concept of fashion photography, beginning with his seminal, fashion spreads for Vogue in the 1940's and '50s.