In 2004 Richard Avedon launched a project called Democracy for the American presidential elections that consisted in taking portraits, all over the States of politicians and people representing this event.
He also photographed senator Barrack Obama and decided to place that portait as the last photograph of the project. I am amazed at the insight Avedon had, not knowing that Obama would become President of the United States of America in 2008.
Plans had been made to shoot more photographs but Richard Avedon suffered of a brain hemorage while staying in San Antonio, Texas and died on October 1, 2004.
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