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1 de oct. de 1985 · Paperback. from $126.00 2 Collectible from $126.00. The 120 full-page photographs in this book depict people at country fairs, rodeos, mining camps, drilling sites, and even a slaughterhouse - men and women of the American West who work at hard, everyday jobs. Richard Avedon introduces the volume with an essay on his working method and portrait ...
Livros de Richard Avedon. Observations, 1959: A collaborative book with Truman Capote containing portraits of many famous people of the twentieth century, including Pablo Picasso, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mae West. Nothing Personal, 1964: A collaborative book with James Baldwin. Alice in Wonderland, 1973.
Richard Avedon nació el 15 de mayo de 1923 en Nueva York en el seno de una acomodada familia judía. Su padre tenía una tienda de ropa en la Quinta Avenida y de niño, mientras su padre atendía a sus clientas, él recortaba las fotos que más le gustaban de los ejemplares de las revistas de moda ‘Vanity Fair’ y ‘Vogue’ que su padre tenía en la tienda.
Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of large-scale photographic portraits from Richard Avedon’s series In the American West (1979–84), which was commissioned in 1978 by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The ten photographs on view in Beverly Hills from November 4 to December 18, 2021, are the original exhibition prints created for the 1985 debut of the series, and have ...
In 1979, Carter director Mitchell A. Wilder commissioned fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon to capture his view of the American West. Intrigued by the challenge, Avedon spent the next six years, from 1979 to 1984, traveling to 189 towns in 17 states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South ...
Richard Avedon's In the American West is widely regarded as a landmark project in photographic history and a definitive expression of the power of photographic art. First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the book is being reissued to accompany a 20th-anniversary re-showing of the exhibition at the same museum.
Richard Avedon (Nueva York, 1923 - Texas, 2004) Fotógrafo estadounidense. Empezó a practicar la fotografía a la edad de diez años: su primer modelo fue el compositor ruso Serguéi Rachmaninov, amigo personal de sus padres.Estudió la disciplina en la New School of Social Research y sirvió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la marina mercante, colaborando ya entonces con sus fotografías ...
