Richard Avedon’s Photography to Headline Guild Hall Museum Exhibition in the Hamptons

PICTURE THE HAMPTONS: A half-century worth of work from Richard Avedon will be the anchor of an upcoming exhibition at the Guild Hall Museum. Set for an Aug. 12 unveiling, “Avedon’s America” will celebrate the American photographer with a bevy of his black-and-white images meant to highlight the unifying beauty in diversity. Museum officials hope visitors will take note of the bounty of talent and far-ranging subjects the lensman photographed, from the disparate to the more established like William F. Buckley, John Cage, Janis Joplin, Florence Kennedy, China Machado, Malcolm X, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Avedon once said, “My photographs don’t go below the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.” Avedon, who died in 2004 at age 81, was a groundbreaking fashion and portrait photographer who cast a long shadow on the second half of the 20th century. Much like many aspiring sharpshooters today, he got his start taking pictures on the streets at 22. Avedon also put his ingenuity and resourcefulness to work in nightclubs, at the circus and on the beach. All that training helped him land the lead photographer job at Harper’s Bazaar, and subsequently long tenures at Vogue and

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