Best Selling Books by Richard Avedon

This work offers a portrait of the sixties by photographer, Richard Avedon. In addition to the photographs of those who characterized the era, there are fifty interviews including Dr Spock and Janis Joplin. Portraits include The Beatles, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and American Nazi Party.

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper''s Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy''s presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazine''s February 1961 issue. That same day, Avedon created more informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach. One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazine''s February 28 issue, with photographs by Avedon inside. Just before the magazine hit the newsstands and was delivered to over 6.5 million people, a set of photographs, comprised mostly of the LOOK images, was released by the White House and appeared in newspapers across the country. During his lifetime, Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harper''s Bazaar. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than seventy-five images from that donation for The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family, making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time. Perich''s introductory essay—accompanied by a wealth of archival photographs of both Avedon and the Kennedy family—provides historical background on the two sittings within a political and cultural context and critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century. A foreword by Robert Dallek, distinguished historian and author of the bet-selling An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, provides authoritative and compelling insight to one of the most fascinating presidents in American history.

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

''Woman in the Mirror'' is a survey of photographs of women throughout Richard Avedon''s career, including images of both celebrities and ordinary citizens in his glamorous and unsparing style.

In August 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. This beautifully produced catalogue, designed by the renowned Danish graphic designer Michael Jensen, features deluxe tritone printing and varnish on premium paper. It includes 125 reproductions of Avedon''s greatest work from the entire range of his oeuvre-including fashion photographs, reportage and portraits-and spans from his early Italian subjects of the 1940s to his 2004 portrait of the Icelandic pop star Bjork. It also features a small number of color images, including what must be one of the most famous photographic portraits of the twentieth century, "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" (1981). Texts by Jeffrey Fraenkel, Judith Thurman, Geoff Dyer, Christoph Ribbat, Rune Gade and curator Helle Crenzien offer a sophisticated and thorough composite view of Avedon''s career.

Surveys each stage of Avedon''s career, including portraits and fashion photographs

A group of master photographers--including Richard Avedon, Inge Morath, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others--have each chosen images by a photographer whose work they feel deserves wider attention. Included are interviews and commentary explaining why the selected artists have made an impact on these photographers'' lives. In turn, the volume presents significant images by the masters themselves, creating a dialogue of influence and inspiration. 60 photos.

A master of American fashion and art photography turns his artistry to capturing--in a series of photograph portraits--the cowboys, roustabouts, drifters, gamblers, bar girls, and others who characterize the modern Western experience

Una retrospectiva del trabajo de Richard Avedon en el mundo de la moda. Una obra fundamental, no sólo en el ámbito de la fotografía de la moda, sino también en el más amplio espectro de la fotografía de posguerra. Edición publicada conjuntamente con la exposición Avedon Fashion 1944-2000. Este libro abarca toda la carrera de Avedon en Harper''s Bazaar, Vogue y The New Yorker, así como su obra para otras publicaciones y clientes. Hay fotografías de casi todas las épocas de su carrera en las revistas de moda, incluidas una serie de imágenes de las cuales no existían copias, que se han positivado de negativos y páginas de revistas. Durante su larga carrera Avedon concibió fotografías en las que la ropa y los accesorios tan sólo eran parte de lo que quería mostrar y expresar sobre las mujeres y la cultura que le rodeaba. La intensidad de las fotografías de moda de Avedon procede de una psicología compleja y ambivalente. Los aspectos más sombríos y que emocionalmente retan más su curiosidad sobre las personas resultan claramente perceptibles en los retratos y en los proyectos documentales que realizó en paralelo con sus fotografías de moda o relacionadas con ella.

Este libro trae imágenes de Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Katherine Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Andy Warhol, Audrey Hepburn y Judy Garland, entre muchos otros. Un teatro de la memoria de los grandes artistas y figurantes ocasionales. El archivo de Richard Avedon es un relato social, sus documentos fotográficos forman una especie de enciclopedia del delirio artístico del siglo XX.