Richard Avedon
The Missing Peace: Artists and the Dalai Lama
100% of the profits from the Missing Peace Project benefit the Dalai Lama Foundation.
Artists and the Dalai Lama is a multi-media traveling art exhibition that brings together the work of 88 artists from 30 countries (among them Chuck Close, Richard Avedon, Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic, Anish Kapoor, Laurie Anderson, Bill Viola). The intention of the project is to shift the world's attention towards peace by exposing millions of people around the world to art inspired by the universal messages of the Dalai Lama.
RICHARD AVEDON - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kamataka, India, January 1998
digital pigment print
signed by Richard Avedon and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
18 by 23 inches
Edition of 12 SOLD OUT
ARTIST PROOF AVAILABLE - price upon request
"A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about. My concerns are not his. We have separate ambitions for the image. His need to plead his case probably go as deep as my need to plead mine, but the control is with me. A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an imotion or fact is transformed into a phtotograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." Richard Avedon
American photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004)has been referred to as our poet laureate of portraiture. His portrait work constitutes a modern-day pantheon of many of the major artistc, intellectual and political figures of the late twentieth century, and as such, belongs to the time-honored tradition of public portraiture.