Richard was one of the best photographers of his time, and he was a world wide fashion photographer, and also worked on documentary photography. He became the lead photographer at vogue magazine photographing the covers etc.. He started to show interest in documentary photography, by doing shoots at mental hospitals, fall of the berlin wall, protesters from the vietnam war. He was then drawn to the working people and made a documentary book called 'In the American West' featuring people who worked as minters, oil field workers, unemployed drifters, and teenagers who were growing up in the West, all still wearing their working clothes, soiled in dirt and oil (personally I think it adds more effect to his pictures and gives a more natural and realistic view on the subject). Avedon also captured photographs of his fathers last 7 years of his life which were all portraits of his face, watching him as he ages.
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