We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

Its release coincided with an exhibition of the work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But when he works he's so acutely creative so sensitive. After graduating from DeWitt in 1941 Avedon enrolled at Columbia University to study philosophy and poetry but dropped out after one year.

Richard Avedon (May 15 1923 – October 1 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. ".