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Richard Avedon was born on 15th May 1923 in New York city and died on 1st October 2004. A long life in which photography had played a central role for around 60 of them years. He started his career in photography taking portraits of crewmen for identity cards in the Merchant Marine, he then began working as an advertising photographer for a department store which is where he was discovered and went on to open his own studio and produced photographs for Vogue. Life and Harper's Bazaar to which he soon became head photographer until 1966, when he moved to Vogue.