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Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004
by Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-12-15)

In August of 2007, Denmark's renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presented Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon's work since his death in 2004. (With stops in Milan, Paris, Berlin and, Amsterdam, the highly-anticipated exhibition concludes in at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in October of 2009.) This beautifully produced catalogue, designed by the renowned Danish graphic designer Michael Jensen, features deluxe tritone printing and varnish on premium paper, and includes 125 reproductions of Avedon's greatest work from across the entire range of his oeuvre--including fashion photographs, reportage and portraits, and spanning from his early Italian subjects of the 1940s to his 2004 portrait of the Icelandic pop star, Bjork. It also contains a small number of color images--including one of the most famous photographic portraits of the twentieth century, "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" (1981). Texts by Jeffrey Fraenkel, ...

Laura Wilson
Avedon at Work: In the American West (HRHRC Imprint Series)
by University of Texas Press (Hardcover)

"Laura Wilson shadowed the Shadower, and showed us as much as can be shown of how his work wasdone." —Larry McMurtry, from the Foreword Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers—but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissioned him to do just that. The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American West, was a milestone in American photography and Avedon's most important body of work. His unflinching portraits of oilfield and slaughterhouse workers, miners, waitresses, drifters, mental patients, teenagers, and others captured the unknown and often-ignored people who work at hard, uncelebrated jobs. Making no apologies for shattering stereotypes of the West and Westerners, Avedon said, ...

Maria Morris Hambourg, Mia Fineman, Richard Avedon, Philippe de Montebello
Richard Avedon Portraits
by Harry N. Abrams (Hardcover)

For over 50 years, Richard Avedon (b. 1923) has captured the creative genius of our time with dazzling insight and incomparable style. Spanning the artist's entire career, from the late 1940s through his most recent work, Richard Avedon Portraits offers a superb selection of his photographic portraits. With uncompromising directness, Avedon portrayed his subjects against a white background, with no extraneous details to distract from the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress, and gesture. This challenging innovation, coupled with the artist's intense interest in his subjects and mastery of his craft, resulted in mesmerizing portraits-among them Truman Capote, Willem de Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as the uncelebrated Americans of his project, "In the American West"-that rival the greatest works in the portrait tradition. Richard Avedon Portraits is published to accompany a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ...

Jane Livingston, David A. Ross
Evidence: 1944-1994
by Random House (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1994-05-10)

The definitive account of the life and work of Richard Avedon, to accompany a major retrospective of the photographic work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Richard Avedon
An Autobiography
by Random House (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1993-09-13)

A startling new look at the life's work of a photographer who had an enormous impact on the way we see the world.

Versace : The Naked and the Dressed: 20 Years of Versace by Avedon
by Random House (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-10-27)

Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon, photographer: [exhibition] September 10 - October 4, 1975, Marlborough Gallery, New York
by The Gallery (Unknown Binding)

Richard Avedon
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon
by Fraenkel Gallery (Paperback)

When Richard Avedon died on October 1st, 2004, he left an extraordinary collection of photographs that spans two centuries and reflects an eye attuned equally to masterworks and mug shots. Few had seen the private collection with which he surrounded himself in his apartment on East 75th Street in New York. These photographs, assembled over five decades, are the subject of Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, comprising five fully-illustrated volumes housed in a sturdy slipcase. Avedon knew a good photograph when he saw one. Though he was far more interested in making pictures than collecting them, he lived surrounded by photographs of every kind, from the exalted to the unknown. "Neurotic women" (his words) were among his particular interests, though his curiosity was vigorous and his pursuits could not be predicted. The photographs in Avedon's collection were acquired primarily by purchase, in some cases by gift. Several bear inscriptions of ...

Judith Thurman
Richard Avedon: Made In France Limited Edition
by Fraenkel Gallery (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2001-11-02)

This Limited Edition of 100 copies is beautifully slipcased in a custom wooden box. The book is signed and numbered on the colophon page and includes an original Avedon print. The image is of Suzy Parker and Gardner McKay at the Cafa des Beaux Arts, Paris in August 1956 from page 34 of the book. The print is also signed and numbered and comes in a separate envelope within the slipcase that is carefully packed in vellum.

19th and 20th Century Protographic Literature and Photgraphs (3/13/1997)
by Swann Galleries, NY (Paperback)

Illustrated auction catalog interesting for its photos and bibliographic information. Frances Firth Egytian photo on cover and surrealist Marcel LeFrancq on the back. 457 entires.

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