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Phoenix Art Museum hosts Richard Avedon photography

By Chris Erskine
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Photographer Richard Avedon captured the civil rights movement, celebs, fashion models and much more. Even his simplest portraits, often taken against plain backgrounds, had depth. “No one has given a nation a more wide-ranging, disciplined photographic document of itself,” the Times of London said of Avedon, who died in 2004.

Beginning Saturday, Phoenix Art Museum presents “Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence,” which will display his early fashion photographs as well as revealing portraits of actors, politicians, artists and intellectuals. The exhibition runs through April 13. Info: (602) 257-1222, www.phxart.org.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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