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Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power | 
| Authors: Renata Adler, Frank Goodyear
Creators: Paul Greenhalgh, Paul Roth, Richard Avedon
Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
Buy New: $37.80
You Save: $22.20 (37%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 14941
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 298
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 10 x 1.6
ISBN: 3865216757
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865216755
ASIN: 3865216757
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Product Description
Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004).
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career. Serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Avedon was assigned to the photography unit and learned his trade making identification portraits. After the war, he found work as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Theater Arts and began a fruitful apprenticeship with legendary editor, designer and artist Alexey Brodovitch. Avedon invigorated the staid fashion photography of the time, staging fictional tableaux and developing an unprecedented theatrical style. Moving to Vogue in 1966 and the New Yorker in 1993, Avedon continued to innovate. Extraordinarily prolific throughout his career, he produced many books, among them Nothing Personal (1964), An Autobiography (1993) and The Sixties (1999).
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| Customer Reviews:
 richard avedon portraits of power November 20, 2008
lynne somoroff (metro dc)
this is a wonderful book to all of us who lived through the Nixon years. everyone who comes into our homes is facinated by this book, which is all pictures.
Powerful book. November 11, 2008
Miguel Homes (Bogota)
Beautifully well crafted book. I am a fan of Richard Avedon, and through this book you can view most of his greatest portraits. I recommend the book if you want to have a piece of great photography in your hands.
 Great book of Avedon's work...but there are better November 2, 2008
D. Driensky (Dallas, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently got into photographer Richard Avedon's work last spring and saw that this book was to be released in October so I waited very eagerly. When I got the book I was a little let down after having looked at "Photographs 46-04" because the "wow" factor isn't there in every photo as it is in "Photographs" due to there being alot of politicians portraits. Still a great collection of images but I would recommend the book "Performance" over this one and would say that "Photographs 1946-2004" is the best collection of his work.
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