Exhibition celebrates centennial anniversary of Richard Avedon's birth

We have in the gallery 147 photographs selected by 158 people. This is an exhibition on the anniversary of what would have been Aberdon's 100th birthday. And we went to 158 people around the world, cultural influencers, and asked them to pick their favorite Richard Aberdon photograph. This was a photography shoot that he did with Marilyn Monroe on May 6, 1957. And it was a whole evening of her dancing around, drinking champagne, wearing this beautiful, sexy, sparkly dress. And at the end of the evening, after everything was done, she was sitting in the corner, tired, and he took another photograph of Marilyn, which is probably the one that is most well known, it's called, unofficially called, Sad Marilyn. The photograph next to me, Ronald Fisher, is an idea that Richard Aberdon had.

I think it was in a dream and he drew a, made a drawing of what he wanted, which was this, he envisioned this bald man with covered in bees. The photographs behind me are of the Beatles photographed in August of 1967, kind of at the height of their fame. And they were, they're one of the many groups of individuals who are in this exhibition, who are so well known. There's also photography of Prince of Michael Jordan. Everything here in the exhibition is owned by the Richard Aberdon Foundation. It was all printed during Aberdon's lifetime. It's all, most of the works are signed and stamped.

If they're for sale, and many of the works in this exhibition are, then they're signed and stamped. It's, it, I think collectors like it because it gives them a sense of the market and the, the finality of this body of work. They know how many remain in existence and that there will never be any more made.

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