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This iconic 1957 Richard Avedon photo, "marilyn monoe, actress, new york," is now in the collection of new york's museum of modern art. today the museum announced its acquisition of 39 avedon photographs, more than doubling its collection of the late photographers work. they are very grateful for   the  cooperation of the Richard Avedon foundation, witch enabled us to realized an acquisiastic that i had discussed with the photographer himself, and about which he was very enthusiastic, said peter galassi, chief curator of momans department  of photography, in a statement issued today. Acquired from the foundation, the career-spanning photo date from 1953 to 2002 and include nine photo of Avedon's father that were first shown in a solo exhibition MoMA in 1974.

Avedon was born in 15 1923 New York City  to a Jewish Russian family. He was the son of Jacob Israel Avedon, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who started a successful retail dress business on Fifth Avenue, and his wife Anna, who came from a family that owned a dress manufacturing business.He went to Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he worked on the school paper The Magpie with James Bladwin from 1937 until 1940. After briefly attending Columbia University, he started as a photographer for the Merchant Marines  in 1942, taking identification pictures of the crewmen with his Rolleiflex camera given to him by his father as a going-away present. From 1944 to 1950, he studied with Alexey Brodovitch at his Design Laboratory at the New School for Social Research.