Audrey Hepburn, New York, January 1967
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Avedon created this fanciful image of the actress Audrey Hepburn for the first issue of Famous Photographers magazine. After photographing Hepburn in the studio, he made a collage of several images printed to scale; an airbrushed sheet of Mylar laid over the collage concealed the visible seams. In the accompanying article, Avedon explained that his interest in photocollage grew from “years of looking at contact sheets and being limited by the reality of what was in front of the camera.”
Artwork Details
- Title: Audrey Hepburn, New York, January 1967
- Artist: Richard Avedon (American, New York 1923–2004 San Antonio, Texas)
- Date: 1967
- Medium: Collage of gelatin silver prints
- Dimensions: Image: 40.6 x 59.1 cm (16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Frame: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York.
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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