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Avedon<\/em>, Oscar winner\u00a0Ron Howard\u2019s\u00a0documentary\u00a0feature about the life and work of legendary photographer\u00a0Richard Avedon, has been acquired by\u00a0Netflix,\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0has exclusively learned. The film, which had its world premiere at May\u2019s\u00a0Cannes Film Festival\u00a0and was met with raves, will be released worldwide on the streaming platform later this year, and will receive an awards push.<\/p>\n A production of Imagine\u00a0Documentaries\u00a0and Fifth Season in association with The Richard Avedon Foundation,\u00a0Avedon<\/em>\u00a0counts among its producers Imagine Entertainment co-chiefs Howard and Brian Grazer and president Justin Wilkes, Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein, Dallas Brennan Rexer and Christopher St. John. Meredith Kaulfers, Mary Lisio, Chris Rice and Graham Taylor served as executive producers.<\/p>\n The film marks a reunion between Netflix and Imagine Documentaries, which recently collaborated on the documentary feature\u00a0Marty, Life Is Short<\/em>, a profile of Martin Short, which recently received three Primetime Emmy nominations, including best documentary special.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always been drawn to stories that help us better understand remarkable people,\u201d Howard tells\u00a0THR<\/em>. \u201cRichard Avedon was an artist whose work continues to resonate not only because of the extraordinary images he created, but because of the humanity and curiosity behind them. At Imagine Documentaries, that\u2019s exactly the kind of story we strive to tell, and this film gave us an extraordinary opportunity to explore Avedon\u2019s legacy through an unparalleled archive and the voices of those who knew him best. We\u2019re thrilled to continue our longstanding partnership with Netflix to share his story with audiences everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n Drawing upon unprecedented access to Avedon\u2019s personal archives, including never-before-seen stills and intimate behind-the-lens footage, as well as new interviews with his closest collaborators,\u00a0Avedon<\/em>\u00a0chronicles the evolution, work and legacy of a photographer whose snaps of world leaders, international supermodels and pop culture icons made him as famous as many of his subjects. (He died in 2004 at the age of 81.)\u00a0<\/p>\n As\u00a0THR<\/em>\u00a0critic Sheri Linden put it in her\u00a0review of the film out of Cannes, \u201cIt embraces the complexities of a man who turned artifice into a kind of superpower, whether he was dreaming up scenarios for fashion spreads or confronting an America as far removed from haute couture Manhattan as you could get.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/netflix-acquires-richard-avedon-documentary-for-2026-release-after-cannes-debut-1234793968\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-729067747.jpg?w=1024″] Avedon, Oscar winner\u00a0Ron Howard\u2019s\u00a0documentary\u00a0feature about the life and work of legendary photographer\u00a0Richard Avedon, has been acquired by\u00a0Netflix,\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0has exclusively learned. The film, which had its world premiere at May\u2019s\u00a0Cannes Film Festival\u00a0and was met with raves, will be released worldwide on the streaming platform later this year, and will receive an awards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2070185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}