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Richard Avedon Portraits 
 
  
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Hardcover 
64 pages 
Harry N. Abrams 
Published 2002 
  
About the Author 
  
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 our era. His many books have set a standard for photographic publishing. As a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar and later for Vogue, Avedon redefined what a fashion photograph is. In 1992 he was named the first staff photographer in the history of The New Yorker.  
  
 
  
Book Description 
  
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. With its innovative accordion-style design and superb reproductions, the book is a virtual stand-alone mini-exhibition in its own right.
 
  
 
  

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The Sixties 
  
Doon Arbus; & Richard Avedon
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An autobiography 
  
Richard Avedon
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Evidence: 1944-1994 
  
Richard Avedon
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In the American West 
  
Richard Avedon
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Versace: The Naked and the Dressed 
  
Richard Avedon
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Vice et versa: 20 ans de mode de Versace 
  
Richard Avedon
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American Photography 19 
  
Richard Avedon; Gregory Crewdson; & William Eggleston
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Richard Avedon. In the American West 1979 - 1984. 
  
Richard Avedon; & Laura Wilson
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Women in the Mirror: 1945-2004 
  
Richard Avedon (Photographer)
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Richard Avedon: Made in France 
  
Richard Avedon (Photographer); & Judith Thurman (Essay)
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Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 
  
Helle Crenzien (Author); Goeff Dyer (Author); Judith Thurman (Author); Christoph Ribbat (Author); & Rune Gade (Author)
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Richard Avedon Portraits 
  
Maria Morris Hambourg; Mia Fineman; & Richard Avedon (Photographer)
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