Fashion comes to Fire Island with Richard Avedon-1946.

Fashion comes to Fire Island with Richard Avedon-1946.

 

 

Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance.

Richard Avedon and his young wife, Doe, had no idea what they were getting into when they agreed to take a beach-house share in the summer of 1946 with his boss at Harper’s Bazaar, Lillian Bassman, and her husband, photographer Paul Himmel, in Cherry Grove.

 

All photo’s by Bassman-Himmel studio.