Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light

“Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light” is an innovative look at a man best known for changing the course of fashion photography in the 1940s and 50s, and reinventing the sometimes staid genre of photographic portraiture. A mix of voices – celebrities, experts, detractors, and supporters – provides a lively chorus of opinion over the visual montage of Avedon´s best work. Unprecedented access to Avedon, his subjects, his friends and his son, lends this 90 minute film a distinctly personal style which helps to explain the inspiration for some of America´s most famous photographers.