2007 First Edition Book "Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004",

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Offered is a rare find first edition book, "Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004", a companion book to the first major retrospective … Read more Offered is a rare find first edition book, "Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004", a companion book to the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon after his death in 2004, spanning his oeuvre from fashion photography to portraiture to reportage. This exhibition was held at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in 2007. Book and exhibition reviews below.
Exhibition venues: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Forma International Center for Photography, Milan, Italy; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany; Foam_FotografieMuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.
Hardcover, deep brown cloth boards, debossed title on cover, dust jacket.
Published by Hatje Cantz, Denmark in partnership with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the Richard Avedon Foundation, 2007
Measures 10" w, 12.875" t, 1.25" d
ISBN: 9788791607493

In August 2007 Denmark's renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presented Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946–2004, the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon's work since his death in 2004. This beautifully produced catalogue, designed by the renowned Danish graphic designer Michael Jensen, features deluxe tritone printing and varnish on premium paper. It includes 125 reproductions of Avedon's greatest work from the entire range of his oeuvre―including fashion photographs, reportage and portraits―and spans from his early Italian subjects of the 1940s to his 2004 portrait of the Icelandic pop star Björk. It also features a small number of color images, including what must be one of the most famous photographic portraits of the twentieth century, "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" (1981). Texts by Jeffrey Fraenkel, Judith Thurman, Geoff Dyer, Christoph Ribbat, Rune Gade and curator Helle Crenzien offer a sophisticated and thorough composite view of Avedon's career.

From the New York Times:
Someone once defined style as what has been pared away. By that definition, Richard Avedon’s stark visual studies of people — or “personalities” — are among the most stylish in the history of photography. “Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004,” at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is the first major retrospective of his work since he died in 2004. The book that accompanies the exhibition includes a comprehensive selection of his portraits, fashion editorials and reportage assignments.

The images that made Avedon an icon are well represented: there is Nastassja Kinski and the serpent, Dovima with elephants, Andy Warhol and the Factory kids, and many of the workers and drifters from the “In the American West” series. But there are also street performers in post-war Paris, Harlem vignettes from the 1940s, tributes to the photographer Martin Munkacsi, street scenes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and personalities as diverse as Truman Capote, Louise Nevelson, Twiggy and Björk. With its range of imagery and essays by Jeffrey Fraenkel, Judith Thurman, Geoff Dyer, Christoph Ribbat, Rune Gade and curator Helle Crenzien, the book reveals as much about Avedon’s personality as his pictures do of his subjects. See less