Famed United States photographer Richard Avedon was hospitalised over the weekend following a brain haemorrhage, a spokesperson for The New Yorker magazine said on Thursday.
Avedon ”had a brain haemorrhage over the weekend,” said spokesperson Perri Dorset.
The photographer is in a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and is ”in critical but stable condition,” Dorset said.
Born in New York in 1923, Avedon is best known for stark black and white portraits of famous people that have been carried in leading US magazines for decades.
In 2002, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art held a retrospective of his work. – Sapa-AFP