Exhibitions

(re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965

December 9, 2022 – Ongoing
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Judy Garland, 1951. Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. All Photographs by Richard Avedon

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

3rd Floor, West, Marcia and Frank Carlucci Hall of Culture and the Arts

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Twenty Richard Avedon images spanning two decades, curated from the Smithsonian’s extensive photo history collection, are on display. (re) Framing Conversations invites visitors to travel throughout the exhibition in a direction of their choosing. The themes of Music, Weddings, Change, Fear, Women’s Words, and Your Moral Compass allow audiences the ability to connect personal experience with the historical content presented throughout.