Richard Avedon Portraits

Richard Avedon Portraits de Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Portraits de Richard Avedon

Le sujet d’un rétrospectif prochain au musée métropolitain de l’art, Avedon est il y a bien longtemps entré dans le canon de la photographie de mode et du portraiture moderne.

Ses images de marque déposée des personnes se tenant contre les contextes blancs, immédiatement unflinching et fascinant dans leur effet, ont aidé à définir notre idée de célébrité elle-même (si Avedon les tirait, ils doivent être célèbres).

Ces slipcased, accordéon-plient la collection de 50 noirs et les portraits de blancs des 50 dernières années, produites pour l’exposition inclus un essai par le conservateur Maria Morris Hambourg et aide rencontré Mia Fineman de recherches, comme un bref mot à partir du photographe lui-même, feront peu pour changer la réputation d’Avedon.

Richard Avedon Portraits

de Richard Avedon

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.