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Critic's Notebook

For him, excitement was in fashion

Energy, artistry meet in Avedon's stylish photos

Avedon’s 1956 shot of Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall roller-skating in front of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Avedon’s 1956 shot of Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall roller-skating in front of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. (Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation)
By Mark Feeney
Globe Staff / August 15, 2010

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Ideally, the name would be spelled Avidon. There was an avidity to Richard Avedon’s eye, a hungry taking in of what was going on around him and an even hungrier desire to arrange and record it. That avidity is everywhere present in “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000,’’ which opened last week at the Museum of Fine Arts and runs through Jan. 17. (Full article: 1156 words)

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