April 12, 2024
SIGNED Richard Avedon An Autobiography 1st ED HC DJ
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Richard Avedon An Autobiography SIGNED Richard Avedon Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House Inc. 1993. Stated first edition. Hardcover. With original glassine dust jacket. SIGNED by Richard Avedon in black on the first free endpaper. Dated. Very good plus in a very good acetate dust jacket. Heavy 12 pound book. Two page introduction by Richard Avedon. Folio. Fifty years of the life and work of photographer Richard Avedon are represented in this monumental work, which includes not only many of his most famous images of Marilyn Monroe, the Andy Warhol circle, etc. but unpublished photographs as well. Textured brown cloth boards with bright red type to front and spine. Photographic self portrait mounted on rear panel. A beautiful retrospective of Avedon's life and art, with 284 plates in black and white. It often seems that inside the celebrity portraitist and fashion photographer Richard Avedon, there are two other photographers struggling to get out, the artist and the political nonconformist. (Parr & Badger I:252). Although Avedon initially achieved fame in the fashion world, "it is his portraits, stark and penetrating, which have won the greatest acclaim among collectors (Blodgett, 102). Boards are clean and bright with light wear. Small right angle crease to the upper right hand corner front board. Acetate dust jacket
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