Overview
- Avedon, which streams on Netflix on November 11, compiles footage, prints and testimony gathered with help from the Richard Avedon Foundation.
- Ron Howard built the film around extensive archival material and interviews to show Avedon at work and to map key moments in his six-decade career.
- The documentary features on-camera contributions from Avedon’s son John and collaborators and subjects including Joel Meyerowitz, Isabella Rossellini, Lauren Hutton, Penelope Tree and Twiggy.
- The Netflix release coincides with Gagosian’s Richard Avedon: Hollywood exhibition in Beverly Hills and Vogue’s reprint of Avedon’s 1967 Veruschka editorial, creating a coordinated public reappraisal.
- Coverage emphasizes Avedon’s technical innovations — motion in fashion spreads, stark white-background portraits and final use of an 8x10 camera — and notes the Foundation’s estimate of about 16,000 sittings as evidence of his vast output and lasting influence.