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The greatest popcorn you’ll ever eat is coming to a theater near you! By: Nate Simi Obviously the First thing you are thinking when getting to the theaters, is what kind of popcorn should you get, or better yet if you should get any popcorn at all. Coming soon to all theater, the all new made popcorn will now be the best popcorn you have ever tasted. Forget about not having real butter, because this time there is real butter on them. In this case, size will not matter because no matter what you will want more to even take with you. Great Northern Popcorn Company has now partnered up with every theater company in the states to provide these delicious popcorn to you with out there being unsatisfying feeling. June 2015 will not only be the beginning of summer, but the beginning of a delicious, golden popcorn era.
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Lights, Camara, Montreal The location behind X-Men: Days of Fututre Past By: Jane Witer
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X-Men: Day of Future Past, released in early 2014, was the first film in the X-Men franchise that received wide critical acclaim and success. It’s praise consisted from its acting , setting to its visual effects and story, but no Film is possible without the beautiful locations that they are being shot at. Montreal, Canada was the motion picture’s major shooting location due to its immersive spots, not to mention the financial situations, but because the beauty in each scene is what gives the film more life to it. Some of the locations shown during the film were the Montreal City Hall, the Olympic Stadium, and McGill University. Apart from the city’s incredible history, it can now be known as the best film location to one of many iconic films.
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The Chemistry of the Fifth Floor. Our Windows are going mad at the lab. By: Josh Spiel
11 Facts About Arts in Education: 1. Students who study art are 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement and 3 times more likely to be awarded for school attendance. 2. Arts and music education programs are mandatory in countries that rank consistently among the highest for math and science test scores, like Japan, Hungary, and the Netherlands. 3. Music programs are constantly in danger of being cut from shrinking school budgets even though they’re proven to improve academics. Show educators how important arts are in your community. Sign up for Music March Out. 4. The No Child Left Behind Act clearly mandates The Arts (music, art, foreign language, etc.) as a core academic subject.
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adder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934. Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” (To Schiaparelli, Chanel was simply “that milliner.”) Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends— stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles sprouted from the fingers of chameleon-green suede gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for pockets. Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers (newfangled in the thirties) were everywhere.
5. One study group showed that 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students who were taught a foreign language every day in school outperformed the students who were not exposed to a foreign language on their Basic Skills Test. 6. Federal funding for the arts and humanities rolls in around $250 million a year, while the National Science Foundation is funded around the $5 billion mark. 7. Researchers find that sustained learning in music and theater correlates strongly with higher achievement in both math and reading. 8. In a study of a high-poverty schools in Chicago, the schools that were participating in the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) made huge strides in closing the gap between high- and low-income students’ academic achievement. 9. Multiple studies have concluded that curricular and extracurricular art studies and activities help keep high-risk dropout students stay in school. 10. New brain research shows that not only does music improve skills in math and reading, but it promotes creativity, social development, personality adjustment, and self-worth. 11. Research suggests that studying a second language is essential to the learning process, creative inquiry and critical thinking. Foreign language studies have proven to increase problem-solving skills and overall cognitive development.
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n theaters Friday, May 22, the latest Hollywood horror reboot takes 1982’s Poltergeist – the chilling tale of a suburban family battling evil spirits – and updates it for 2015. Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt step into the parental roles played in the original films by Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams. Although we’re excited for the new Poltergeist, its release has also made us nostalgic for the original movie and its sequels. The 1982 film Poltergeist is thoroughly embedded in our collective unconscious, and this faithful remake promises to revive its scares for a new generation. Kenan explored the spooky secrets of the suburbs with his Oscar-nominated animated feature Monster House, so this tale of a family terrorized by a malevolent ghost should be right up his haunted alley. obviously not many expectation can come in when it comes to remaking one of the most beloved horror film of Hollywood. Especially when the original achieved a success that still upholds today with a new generation.
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Lets reboot back to the early 1980s. Released in 1982, a film that generated a success that was hard to surpass after the infamous horror film of William Friedkin “The Exorcist”. Although different within its plot, visuals, and mostly everything, it still manages to do one similar thing, risk a young little girl’s life on the hands of a presence. This film, although not being the only one, has now generated this legacy that haunts the remakes of the future. I mean why not, if most of them tend to disappoint and prove that indeed there shouldn’t be such things as remakes of already good films. I am sure its safe to say that every original film gets wide success, simply because nothing like it was
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exploited before, especially at the time period it was released, or any other horrors films-that-haveterrible-remakes were released. Poltergeist exhibited a different presence to the silver screen. It was not a possessive demon nor was it a psychopath killer striking teenagers. This time, the horror genre took a strike in aiming at a different source, a more modern climax at the time. Many critics have established, that this film truly invested an original story because it was something that could have potentially has been a total screw up. Although it became the opposite thanks to the brilliant collaboration of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg, this film was brought out to be as a brilliant.
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The original grossed over 76.6 million the first week...the reboot only 29 million. Filmed in early 1982, poltergeist established many special effects that may have been really difficult to pull of at that time, but by being nominated for three academy awards, it seems as if there wasn’t anything impossible to accomplish. The film distributes this plot that wasn’t familiar back then. Knowing that it was to be a horror film, it was set on a suburban neighborhood house that was infested with demons inside an electrical force. Obviously the setting of the film was a different place, the house of which the film was actually filmed, was in Simi Valley, CA. which is now a frequently visited place to acknowledge the presence of that intriguing film that was released almost 33 years ago. Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist
did for ghosts what E.T. did for aliens and Fast Times at Ridgemont High did for pizza deliveries in history classes. It made cold spots hot. The plot involves a graveyard of ghouls who get shaken and stirred, and menace the family of Steven and Diane Freeling. They abduct 6-year-old Carol Anne Freeling by sucking her into a closet straight out of The Twilight Zone. Directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame, the movie grossed a then-phenomenal $76.6 million. Two Spielbergless and Hooper-less sequels didn’t perform as well: Poltergeist II: The Other Side in 1986 ($41 million) and Poltergeist III in 1988 ($14.1 million). Although the other two sequels didnt give that much success, plot-wise, it gave that financial boost for the whole.
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Legacy:
The song “Shining” by horror punk band Misfits, on their 1997 album American Psycho, is based directly on the film, with the chorus centered around the refrain: “Carol Anne, Carol Anne”.[37] The 2006 Family Guy episode, “Poltergeist”, parodies Poltergeist. While attempting to build a multiplex in his backyard, Peter discovers an Indian burial ground. When he takes an Indian chief’s skull, a poltergeist invades the Griffins’ home. The episode used some of the same musical cues heard in the film, and recreates several of its scenes.[38] Some of the scenes parody the film, such as Peter shaving and then peeling off bloody strips of his face into the sink, only to find his face to be the face of Hank Hill from King of the Hill, with Peter laughing and saying “propane” in his own voice, the television playing the “Star-Spangled Banner” at midnight during its sign-off, Stewie emulating Carol Anne while at the television, and Peter finally putting the television outside at the end of the episode, after putting Meg outside, before bringing her back inside. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, a game made on the Nintendo 3DS by Nintendo in 2013, references the TV scene when the television begins to show static and Carol Anne walking towards the television. Luigi does the same thing as Carol Anne, the TV shows static, and Luigi walks up to it and reaches his hand to it. Kimmy Gibbler from Full House, in the episode “Our Very First Promo”, says, “Remember that kid from Poltergeist who got sucked in the T.V.” Then later in the episode, Stephanie wakes up and says “They’re baaa-ck”. Scary Movie 2 has a scene in which a clown hides under Ray’s bed and then pulls him underneath, a marijuana plant growing large and coming to life, and Alex being dragged across the walls of the bedroom. They are all parodies of scenes from Poltergeist.
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Torrance was not a poltergeist, and it wasn’t a poltergeist that sent him into a claustrophobic spiral. And what makes the idea behind Poltergeist more frightening (that’s not a claim that Poltergeist is a better film than The Shining, for the record) was the fact that the problems the Freeling family faced couldn’t be resolved by extraction. It wasn’t as simple as saying, ‘Hey, I’m gettin’ while the gettin’ is good.’ There were wronged spirits waiting for an unsuspecting family in Cuesta Verde, and those spirits were not going to be denied. It was, in short, a problem that meant imminent, unavoidable danger the very second Steve Freeling signed on the dotted line.“Poltergeist” is a lot more dedicated to its cause than most viewers today are probably used to. It builds to something of value. That may not make it the most profound film of its genre by any stretch, but it does make it one of the most memorable. This classic
now have a hard problem convincing the audience that its trying to modernize the films that are already beloved, but instead of succeeding they fail by introducing elements that don’t really attract the audience that were captivated by the original. Now that this new development is released, you may be asking what is the difference from the original to this “faithful” remake? Although, the film has been acknowledge to be quite faithful to its original influence, the film does upgrade itself from that time period. Like the Freeling Family, “Eric Bowen” (played by Sam Rockwell) and his wife, “Amy” (played by Rosemarie DeWitt), and their three children decide to relocated and house themselves on a seemingly house on a suburban neighborhood. Although the neighborhood is peaceful, indeed, they will need to deal with the false hope their new house’s disturbance. starting from the point where the youngest child finds herself having
“For it’s time Poltergeist was pretty graphic. It was only rated PG. As opposed to the 2015 update’s PG-13 rating, and it was a bit more tame.” ‘haunted house ghost story’ is fascinating to watch, with its extraordinary special effects created by George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic team, and a screenplay by Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor. However, in the early 80s, it was criticized for only receiving a PG rating (after the filmmakers protested its original R rating), given its intense scenes of horror - accentuated by the new Dolby sound system technology. In reaction (in part), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in 1984 created a new ratings category in between PG and R ratings - PG-13. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards without any wins: Best Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith), Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects (Richard Edlund, Michael Wood, Bruce Nicholson). All three of Poltergeist’s nominations were lost to Spielberg’s own E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). That’s the reason why remakes,
fun with the closet and it electrifying vibes, that are later distinguished by his nearly older brother. So many critics have noted that the film is very faithful to the original, following up with memorable scenes and actually succeeding on them. For those who were alive in the ‘80s when “Poltergeist” first appeared on the big screen and scared fans all across the nation, the movie wasn’t the only thing that had people shaking in their boots. The film and its sequels were heavily rumored to be cursed due to unexpected deaths by the first film’s youngest stars. The curse thickens though when actors Julian Beck and Will Sampson joined the second movie, according to another article on Movie Pilot. Beck played “Kane,” who turned out to be the materialization of the “Beast” from the first film, which we never saw the character in. Sampson played the Native American Medicine Man named Taylor.
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Now released, the film has been met with mix reviews not only from critics but from loyal fans of the original film, not to mention the whole trilogy. Some say that it was nothing special, and mentioned that there was not specofic reason on why the reboot was even in developement. Sure it was faithful to what the original had brought to the table, but it didnt
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sperated it from it. it didnt establish a reason of its existance. “If we were to remember the original film, we might a swell watch the original Poltergest, not this remake that dosnet bring anything new to watch”, say a fellow moviegoer. Offering a twist on the new cast, it still develops the family value and relationship that we had believed in the 1982 original.
“This new Poltergeist isn’t anything special... But it’s not a travesty, and that feels like cause for brief celebration”
According to many critics, the film does succeed on developing those memorable scenes from the original. Some stated that it was enjoyable, but was definitely a film that a remake wasn’t relevant at this time. The original was absolutely modern for its time, they only minor issue would be that rematching it now with such high quality TVs the dated quality of the film wont excite a lot of people. Was it a good film?, NO. Was it terrible? No. It was just film that didn’t represented a certain value. Although it was a well developed remakes compared any other ones. “Poltergeist” 2015, was being named a reboot or a remake, so now the question is if it is meant to be a reboot of the series, will we expect more films in the future? Just have to wait and see. Ultimately, there is nothing glaringly wrong with the new Poltergeist, but there is also nothing astoundingly
well done either. Bottom line, it is ok, trapped somewhere in the limbo between impressive and atrocious horror. I could definitely enjoy it, and I do not regret watching it, but it did not affect me in any real way. The 2015 re-imagining of Poltergeist is mostly what we’ve come to expect from horror remakes -- a passable if tedious display, hitting a lot of familiar beats from its source material but dressed up in the current horror fashions. In fact, the one thing that’s brought into sharpest focus by the new Poltergeist is that the original has held quite a bit of influence on modern horror. Insidious, Sinister and The Conjuring all have one unifying theme in common -- family. At the heart of each of their stories is a family struggling to deal with the supernatural. It’s a theme that has served each franchise well enough to merit lucrative theatrical sequels.
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The Jurassic Legacy Continues The franchise has been waiting for this for 14 years! By: Steven Kou
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ike many of Steven Spielberg’s film, there is always critical acclaim to them because of it timeless stories. Now not many of his directorial films have generated such a famous franchise like Jurassic Park did that just as of now has gotten bigger. Although thinking that after the failure the second and third film had compared to the original, there wouldn’t be any other attempts in producing another sequel. Who are we kidding though, this is Hollywood, and whatever works they will make it happen. I mean one thing many fans are glad is that the original film itself won’t have an attempt of being remade, which its obviously for the best since the original had such great value to everyone of us now. Its legacy has been alive for 22 years now, and with this new sequel things could not get better for the franchise itself. Now will this new installment generate positive reviews? We will just have to see when it comes to theaters on June 16. Like a great franchise it was, there is never a time when a look back to the favorite moments of the series is uncalled for. Although many of its iconic remembrance is within the original film, looking back at the whole franchise we make us more ready for when Jurassic World hits us. June 2015 — Film Freaks — 27
Jurassic Park was released in 1993, with Steven Spielberg behind the camera directing all of those life-size animatronics that made the film more spectacular. We thanked Spielberg for taking those four years in the making of this film to get it right and captivate all those dinosaur fans. Did he succeed? Well according to every review there is, critics call this film an iconic film that will stun many people, not just dinosaur fans. Jurassic Park was surely mean to be a film because although it was a book, this particular story had to be seen by every dinosaur fan in the most incredible visual way. This film became so successful that it even surpassed Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial in becoming the highest grossing film of that time. Filming took place in the Kauai Island of Hawaii, where life size animatronics were put in order to start the production as scheduled, although the film’s setting was in Costa Rica. Some weather complications made the animatronics a bit more fragile when being on set. For the most part, every rain scene seen on the film was based by the hurricane that was currently happening when filming was taking place. Upon its release, the film took on a marketing spree with a lot of distributer. Its promotional status was on top of the roof. Universal included three Jurassic Park video games by Sega and Ocean Software, a Hasbro distributed toy line by Kenner, McDonald’s Dino-Size Meals, and a novelization aimed at young children. Its trailers were the very particular when showing a dinosaur, actually Spielberg decided to not even let a dinosaur be completely seen, instead the audience just had a tiny glimpse of them. When it was broadcasted in NBC three years after its theatrical release, NBC garnered the 36 percent share of the viewing ratings, making Jurassic Park the highest-rated theatrical film broadcast on television of any network after the broadcast of Trading Places, in 1982. The film’s memorable sequences have been awarded many nominations to list, especially having recognition at the American Film Institute. So far to have this much success and three Academy Award wins is a bit too much to even think that a sequel will surpassed it or at least reach it.
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—-“Hold on to your butts”” Once the second book was published in 1995, Spielberg when at it again and production quickly began for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The film takes place four years after the first film, after john Hammond lost control of the company to his nephew, the company was in development to being restored, but by bringing the surviving dinosaurs to mainland an making the Jurassic park a city wide museum. The second film’s plot and imagery is a lot darker than the first installment. This time, new dinosaurs were introduced, but yet still kept the T-Rex as the villain to attack the whole city. Although despite its mixed reviews from critics, the film was a success at the box office. Like every other sequel to really good film, they tend to be haunted by the shadows of the iconic original. But nor matter what that didn’t stop Hollywood from making another sequel, Jurassic Park III, which in no way was ever based an existing book. This was just Hollywood wanting to expand a franchise maybe didn’t need a sequel at all. The film was released, but also did generally good at the box office, but much poorly within critics’ reviews. Whenever a person even mentions a dinosaur name in particular, a clear image of that dinosaur will be the same image within these films, but no one will forget the original because it several scenes that fans are overwhelmed yet intrigued when reaching, restating, and remembering them.
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Absolutely 14 years after, to think that this franchise was never going to be rebooted, Jurassic World was promoted. But once it was mentioned, many were skeptical about whether or not that would be a good idea, after seeing what had happened to the past two sequels. But it is Jurassic park, whether or not the plot is good, many viewers will definitely not get pass with out checking this new installment out. By the way, it has dinosaurs involved, which pretty much will sell most of it. Once that first trailer came out, it took the words out of every fan out there because it had refreshing yet captivating scene that were absolutely loved in the original, bring back that malevolent T-Rex, as well as introducing never-before-seen dinosaurs, which makes it more original. Now a days, the film will have to be based on the more modern world, which makes the film more relevant to what the audience is used to seeing. So far, this new installment has gotten a lot of hype, which might be a bit too much because it puts the film of the edge to serve those expectations that fans will or already have.
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the first installment of the Jurassic Park film series. It is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, with a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp. The film centers on the fictional Isla Nublar, an islet located off Central America’s Pacific Coast, near Costa Rica, where a billionaire philanthropist and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs. Before Crichton’s novel was published, four studios put in bids for the film rights. With the backing of Universal Studios, Spielberg acquired the rights for $1.5 million before publication in 1990; Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. David Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel’s exposition and violence and made numerous changes to the characters. Filming took place in California and Hawaii between August and November 1992, and post-production rolled until May 1993, supervised by Spielberg in Poland as he filmed Schindler’s List. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic and with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs built by Stan Winston’s team. To showcase the film’s sound design, which included a mixture of various animal noises for the dinosaur roars, Spielberg invested in the creation of DTS, a company specializing in digital surround sound formats. Following an extensive $65 million marketing campaign, which included licensing deals with 100 companies, Jurassic Park grossed over $900 million worldwide in its original theatrical run. It surpassed Spielberg’s 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to become the highest-grossing film until Titanic (1997). Jurassic Park was well received by critics, who praised its special effects, John Williams’ musical score, and Spielberg’s direction but criticized the script. The film won more than 20 awards (including 3 Academy Awards), mostly for its technical achievements. Following a re-release in 2011, and a 3D reissue in 2013 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Jurassic Park became the 17th film to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales, and is currently the one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Jurassic Park is considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, as well as a landmark in the vector of visual effects regarding its computer-generated imagery and animatronics.
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This time the plot will surround on the redevelopment of Jurassic Park but this time the public will now get to see what was in the making for the past two decades. The film stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong, and Irrfan Khan. Isla Nublar, an island located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This new park is owned by Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan), CEO of the Masrani Corporation. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), a member of the park’s on-site staff, is a trainer on a group of Velociraptors, known as Blue, Charlie, Delta and Echo. At the corporation’s request, the park’s geneticists create a hybrid dinosaur known as Indominus rex (created from the DNA of Giganotosaurus, Rugops, Majungasaurus, and Carnotaurus) to boost visitor attendance. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the park’s operations manager. Her nephews, Zach (Nick Robinson) and Gray (Ty Simpkins), are visiting the island when the hybrid escapes and are subsequently caught up in the creature’s deadly rampage. It then becomes the responsibility of Owen and Jurassic World’s security team to contain the hybrid dinosaur before she can cause more damage. What is more worse than already knowing that hybrid inventings are what will bring this world down, I don’t think we need a constant reminder that that will happened. However the story is overall original to the franchise, but very similar to recent released films this year. Does “Ultron” sound familiar? Although it might be story that has been exploited quite often, there is now way that they is an excuse to pass on this film and see incredible dinosaurs scene of the big screen. Jurassic Park has made a true legacy that with good or bad sequels should be remembered.
Jurassic World will be released in theaters on June 19.
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Richard Avedon: A Portrait of an Artist Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of the photographers work. By Kely Smith
What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers.Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been “found” by an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work for them as well as Vogue,
Look, and a number of other magazines. During the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject.As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs.
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hroughout his career Avedon has maintained a unique style all his own. Famous for their minimalism,Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed. Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both.
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Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients
in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans.
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Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the waorld by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous.
Avedon died on October 1st, 2004.
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