00:00Okay, how do we begin?
00:04It would be hard to find any creative working today
00:07that isn't influenced by the work of Richard Avedon.
00:10He changed everything.
00:12Avedon was like a hunter.
00:14One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.
00:17It was unbelievable, he was like a magician.
00:19He's like, love it, beautiful!
00:22I can't divide fashion from the way we live.
00:26Avedon transcends magazines to a larger medium.
00:30Walk into the show, it blew my socks off.
00:33It was like, who is this guy?
00:38Dick was the ultimate truth-teller.
00:41I can't think of anybody who captures the currency of our times
00:45in the way that he did.
00:46We all want to look good.
00:47We all want to feel good about ourselves.
00:49That's not what he's looking for.
00:51Here was this photographer making a lot of money,
00:53shooting beautiful, elegant models.
00:55But he could not stay away from the events of the time.
00:58He wanted to make a statement.
01:00Sometimes in a brutally honest way.
01:02It really showcases what institutional racism looks like.
01:08Dick reveled in presenting famous people in a different light.
01:12I relate to them, and I feel connected to them.
01:15How do you photograph somebody who is so prepared to be photographed?
01:19How do you help that mask fall?
01:22And suddenly, I felt like somebody was seeing me for the first time.
01:27And that was a wonderful feeling.
01:29Being an artist is about being in control.
01:32He was emotionally ruthless.
01:34And totally insecure.
01:35Nothing was going to take him away from whatever he was working on.
01:38That's a hard way to live.
01:39In the end, everything fades.
01:41He made you pay attention.
01:43Nothing is fixed.
01:44It was absolutely groundbreaking.
01:46The light is always changing.
01:49Photography is the marriage of imagination and reality.
01:54Every photograph is accurate.
01:57And none of them is the truth.
01:59And none of them is evil.
02:03There is noезbish.
02:04There is no history to self-defeate,
02:06It's impossible.
02:06Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
