Avedon: Murals and Portraits

Richard Avedon
Avedon: Murals and Portraits

Photographs: Richard Avedon

Text: Larry Gagosian, Louis Menand & Mary Panzer

Publisher: Gagosian Gallery

254 pages

Year: 2012

Price: 120 €

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 32,5 x 26,2 cm, b&w photographs. With 4 murals, 8 folding pages. In very good condition other than traces of use and marks, as well as marks on the back cover page. Text in English.

No photographer had a more serious and deeply felt response to the political and cultural impact of the 1960s and early 1970s than Richard Avedon, whose iconic portraits of key figures of the era influenced the course of photography in the decades that followed. In four monumental photographic murals (reproduced in large gatefolds) and many related portraits, he portrayed Andy Warhol’s gender-bending Factory, with Viva and Candy Darling; Abbie Hoffman and the radical agitators of the Chicago Seven; Allen Ginsberg’s family, friends, and fellow artists; and the U.S. Mission Council in Saigon alongside searing portraits of victims of the Vietnam War.
The photographs are accompanied by images of archival material, including Avedon’s diaries, correspondence, and contact prints. Major essays explore Avedon’s penetrating incursions into the history and spirit of these tumultuous years.