Richard Avedon - Portraits - 2002

Richard Avedon Portraits offers a superb selection of his photographic portraits from 1940 among them:
His work includes mesmerizing images of Truman Capote, Willem de Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Marilyn Monroe, as well as of the uncelebrated Americans of his project "In the American West".

50 photographs.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art from September 2002 to January 2003

Un-paginated accordion-paged hardbound book.

Richard Avedon is one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the 20th century. His portrait work comprises an authoritative record of the era and, as a staff photographer of "Harper's Bazaar" and later for "Vogue", Avedon redefined what a fashion photograph is.

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.

Very good condition with slipcase.

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