"RICHARD AVEDON PORTRAITS". Collectif. Editions Harry N. Abrams, en collaboration avec The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2002. Edition Originale. Imprimé en Italie. Grand in-8 présenté sous la forme d'un leporello sous emboîtage cartonné photo, couverture cartonnée photo, 34 pages dépliantes (recto verso). Texte en anglais de Maria Morris Hambourg & Mia Fineman et de Richard Avedon, avant-propos de Philippe de Montebello, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte, par Richard Avedon. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, du 26 Septembre 2002 au 05 Janvier 2003.

 

"Richard Avedon, like the subjects of his boldly scaled photographic portraits, is a figure who may at time appear larger than life. In a career that has spanned more than half a century, he has distinguished himself as an artist of immense energy and originality and has created many of the iconic images of our time. Avedon first made his name in the pages of harper's Bazaar, where his arresting images set a new standard for fashion photography. His fashion work was the subject of a major exhibition, "Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977," presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978. An equal achievement has been his reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture. Unlike the fashion photographs, most of Avedon's portraits are not initiated by commercial assignments but by personal conviction. Each is a virtuoso reckoning with human complexities and contradictions and a powerful expression of this artist's distinctive vision…" Philippe de Montebello.

 

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