Heather Peterson week six

In Richard Avedon's fable "In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort" created for the New Yorker in 1995, he primarily used model Nadja Auermann and a life size skeleton as subjects for his photographs. Color was brought into the photographs enhancing the feel, mood, and gestures of the collection. In this photograph, Avedon used muted, analogous colors to bring to life the tension created in the composition. With the vertical pull of the photograph, the light cast on the 2 primary figures puts an elegant veil over them in juxtaposition to the textured, rotted out background which they are placed upon.