PORTRAITS

Ricahrd Avedon, Harold Rosenberg [essay]

Richard Avedon, Harold Rosenberg [essay]: PORTRAITS. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. First edition. Quarto. White cloth stamped in gray. Lettered dust jacket. Unpaginated. 84 plates. 4 fold-outs. Jacket spine lightly toned and top edge lightly worn. Trivial wear to jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Out-of-print.

9 x 12 hardcover book with 144 pages and 84 b/w plates, four of which are fold-outs. "You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. The surface is all you've got. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface."-- Richard Avedon.

As obvious as it may seem, this statement forms the philosophical core of Avedon's approach to photography, and sets the standard many photographers have striven to uphold during the latter half of the twentieth century. Avedon's mastery of craft and the ability to minimize the extraneous has yielded some of the most mesmerizing portraits of this century.

A well chosen collection of Avedon's portraits, the majority frontal and close-up. Subjects include Robert Frank, John Szarkowski, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol (his scarred torso), Henry Miller, Jean Renoir, Alexey Brodovitch, Oppenheimer, Marilyn Monroe, William F. Buckley, Igor Stravinsky, the Chicago Seven, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Jean Genet, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs and many more.

A sample spread from this volume can be viewed here.

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