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).
Lyle Ashton Harris
(Cassandra Coblentz; with contributions by Kwame Anthony Appiah... [et al.]; concept and design by COMA; ISBN: 0974364894;
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