Rare and hard-to-find "Portraits" by Richard Avedon. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edtion, 1976. Published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux-New York. 12" by 9". Excellent clean copy.
For over 50 years, Richard Avedon (deceased 2004) captured the creative genius of our time with dazzling insight and incomparable style. Spanning the artist's career, from the late 1940s through 1976, Richard Avedon Portraits offers a superb selection of his photographic portraits. 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, William de Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and members of the Factory, William Burroughs, Marilyn Monroe, Lewis Milestone, Igor Stravinksy, The Chicago Seven, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Dwight David Eisenhower, Ezra Pound, Algir Hiss, Jasper Johns, Rose Mary Woods and Groucho Marx. Amazing book!
