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Title: Richard Avedon Portraits by Maria Morris Hambourg, Mia Fineman, Richard Avedon, Philippe de Montebello ISBN: 0810935406 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Marriage of Book and Exhibit
Comment: Richard Avedon wears several hats. As an artist creating innovative commercial images; He is behind the most dynamic magazine pages of the day,... He is witness of the greatest generation to social and political fact; He tells stories of icons and common men. He places them alike: actors, writers, poets, politicians and artists. The poet who recites through his lens.
Published to accompany a major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Richard Avedon Portraits celebrates His lifetime of achievements and almost does justice to the work.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Book as Art
Comment: RICHARD AVEDON PORTRAITS is a stunning work, not only because of the usual expected glory of his photographs, but because of the genuinely artistic concept behind this catalogue for a Museum Exhibition. Slipcased, the book opens as an accordian with single and diptych/triptych photographs viewable by placing the unscrolled book on a tabletop or bookshelf. Not that there are any new moments here: this is a collection of some of Avedon's famous faces and bodies, curated for a specific purpose. But to view Andy Warhol together with his co-creators of his photos and films standing on one page clothed and on another nude intensifies the manner in which Avedon's manner of capturing the star's works so well. We are treated to a full face of Francis Bacon and in the next panel a partial view of his entire body. All manner of odd characters inhabit these deliciously synchronous pages. The back side of this tableaux discusses Avedon, his influences and appropriations from painting and other art forms, and does what it sets out to do - make the pieces of the tableaux relevant in the history of the time in which they were photographed. This is a clever and rewarding book and the book itself becomes art.
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Title: Evidence: 1944-1994 by Richard Avedon, Jane Livingston, Adam Gopnik ISBN: 067940922X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Mario Testino: Portraits by Mario Testino, Patrick Kinmouth, Patrick Kinmonth, Charles Saumarez Smith, Alexandra Shulman ISBN: 0821227610 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Irving Penn by Colin Westerbeck ISBN: 082122459X Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title:Richard Avedon - Darkness and Light ASIN: B00005Y71Y Publisher: Wellspring Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.48 |
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Title: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph by Diane Arbus, Stan Grossfeld ISBN: 0893816949 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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