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Exploring Richard Avedon’s fascination with France, Avedon’s France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives); and substantive essays by the authors. In addition to five portfolios of French sitters spanning a lifetime of portraiture, it looks at Avedon’s apprenticeship to his mentor, Alexei Brodovitch; his encounters with French fashion; his idealized version of Paris in the movie Funny Face; his fresh take on the belle epoque in his book on Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diary of a Century; and his fruitful association with the magazine Egoïste later in his life. Avedon’s France offers a full account of Avedon’s restless pursuit of new ways of looking at the world, and it reveals a master image maker, a true artist for his time.
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Avedon's France, Marianne Le Galliard, Robert M. Rubin
- Language
- Released
- 2016
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Avedon's France
- Subtitle
- Old World, New Look
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marianne Le Galliard, Robert M. Rubin
- Publisher
- Abrams Books
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 792
- ISBN10
- 1419726005
- ISBN13
- 9781419726002
- Series
- Tags
- Travel, References & Manuals, Art, USA, Exhibition Catalogues, France, Celebrities, Popular Culture, Performing Arts, Art Photography
- Description
- Exploring Richard Avedon’s fascination with France, Avedon’s France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives); and substantive essays by the authors. In addition to five portfolios of French sitters spanning a lifetime of portraiture, it looks at Avedon’s apprenticeship to his mentor, Alexei Brodovitch; his encounters with French fashion; his idealized version of Paris in the movie Funny Face; his fresh take on the belle epoque in his book on Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diary of a Century; and his fruitful association with the magazine Egoïste later in his life. Avedon’s France offers a full account of Avedon’s restless pursuit of new ways of looking at the world, and it reveals a master image maker, a true artist for his time.