Giclee print edition of 100 on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper

35.5 x 28 cm (14 x 11 inches)

It was such a delight to work from the 1956 Richard Avedon photo of Audrey Hepburn taken for the publicity of the film Funny Face, which in a case of art imitating life imitating art, had a plot based on Richard Avedon's early career. Fred Astaire played 'Dick Avery' and Audrey his model/actress wife, Doe.

Avedon and Hepburn had a rare and special bond when it came to creating timeless images, based on utter trust, which is clear from the speech Hepburn gave when she presented Avedon with a CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989:

“For Richard, I've happily swung through swings, stood in clouds of steam, been drenched with rain, and descended endless flights of stairs without looking and without breaking my neck... Only with Richard have I been able to shed my innate self-consciousness in front of the camera. Is it his sweetness? Is it his sense of fun? The assurance that you know you're going to end up looking the way you wished you looked?"

And Avedon is recorded as saying:

"I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera.... I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record, I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she was.... She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait."

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