"APERTURE Number 101. Winter 1985. "The Human Street" Issue. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Contributors to this edition include Bruce Gilden, Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Hernandez, John Gutman, Richard Avedon, Keizo Kitajima, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sergio Purtell, Eric Fischl, Eugene Atget, Robert Walker, and more. 77 pp., all tight, clean, and intact. Shippe ..."
" In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy's presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazine's February 1961 issue. That same day, Avedon created more i ..."
"The first survey of Richard Avedon’s influential advertising work Richard Avedon was one of the most sought-after and influential advertising photographers in America from the 1940s to the beginning of the 21st century, creating work that exemplified Madison Avenue at the height of its influence in world culture. Working with a talented cadre of models, copy writers, and art directors, Avedon made images that enticed consumers to embra ..."
Joseph Brodsky Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) by Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, RichardAvedon Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 2003 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-528-8, ISBN: 1-57806-528-3
"Biography -- Literary Criticism Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared emigre into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen." In interviews from 1972 to 1995, "Joseph B ..."
"Every year American Photography presents images--hundreds of the best, selected by a jury of outstanding publishing and design professionals--that capture the spirit of the year. Each year's selection becomes a time capsule of events, people and issues, as well as a periscope view of the medium and its evolving technologies. Regarded by creative professionals as the number one source for the best talent in the business, American Photogr ..."
"Gianni Versace's unbridled enthusiasm for the baroque finds new expression in Do Not Disturb, his playful peek behind the closed doors of the Versace homes. Versace's Garden of Eden is found at home - be that a stuccoed Ottocento pavilion fronting the Lago di Como, a sumptuous home office in the center of the fashion capital, or an Art Deco pile in South Beach. Versace's Adam and Eve might well be Sylvester Stallone and Claudia Schiffer ..."
"From Stephen King to Ian McEwan, Hopler has gathered the ultimate collection of assassination fiction. Smart, stylish, and deadly, "Nothing Personal" is the ultimate anthology of literary noir."
"Hiro has been a revered name in the world of fashion and editorial photography for more than forty years. A master of precision, elegance, and startling graphic imagery, the extraordinary brilliance and range of Hiros photography is presented for the first time in this book."
"The Sixties is the product of a 30-year collaboration between photographer Richard Avedon and writer Doon Arbus, whose images and words combine in this volume to create a compelling portrait of one of the 20th century's most tumultuous decades. Avedon, the celebrated photographer whose portraits of some of the best-known personalities of our age have graced the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and The New Yorker magazines since t ..."
"From the theatrical to the whimsical, Gianni Versace's designs have something for everyone. On these pages, his sketches and finished works of haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry, and opera and ballet costumes — as well as artworks created by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Bruce Weber. The pictures are accompanied by a variety of writing, including commentary by Hamish Bowles of American Vogue, a new short story by Isab ..."
Avedon at Work(1st Edition) In the American West (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series) by Laura Wilson, Larry Mcmurtry, RichardAvedon Hardcover, 132 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70193-9, ISBN: 0-292-70193-4
"Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century’s greatest photographers—but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissioned him to do just that. The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American ..."
Sixties by RichardAvedon Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-224-04183-6, ISBN: 0-224-04183-5
"The work of two of the most celebrated photographers of the late 20th century is explored in this pair of monographs. Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the twentieth century), all--well almost all--fully clothed," writes Sus ..."
"his exhibition catalog features a 137 selected photographs that were presented at Pier 24 Photography within the exhibition About Face. Included in this exhibition catalog are three original essays by leading scholars on photography. About Face, focuses on the tradition of portrait-based photography. Nearly thousand photographs drawn primarily from the Pilara Foundation's permanent collection were exhibited from May 15th, 2012 - April 3 ..."
""Visionaire" is a multi-format album of fashion and art, published in exclusive, numbered limited editions. Since its inception in the spring of 1991, its relentless quest to push the idea of the printed magazine into increasingly uncharted areas has prompted "Visionaire" to pioneer issues that are wearable, edible, audible, sprayable, playable, magical, tactical, digital, and now--with its 63rd issue--indestructible. The world record-b ..."
"Portrait of a Family Richard Avedon, Shannon Thomas Perich. FOREWORD. In
1901, William McKinley, a popular second-term president, was assassinated in
Buffalo, New York. In 1944, 43 years after his death, he had joined the ranks of
other largely nameless, faceless presidents like the two Harrisons, William Henry
and Benjamin, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and
Chester Arthur. McKinley's wife and family wer ..."
"From the collection of the renowned photography critic and curator Vince Aletti, "Male" collects photographs, paintings and artifacts on the theme of the male body, amassed over the last 30 years. Aletti's collection was first presented at New York's White Columns gallery in February 2008, and is a wild blend of anonymous and iconic art and photography from the nineteenth century to the present, a visual cacophony that distinguishes Ale ..."
"This is the first study of a fascinating, international phenomenon in the art of the past century. 'Naked portraiture' is an original hybrid of the traditional genres of the nude and portrait, and has been created by an astonishing range of major artists, in many different media and in a variety of major artistic centres. Martin Hammer's ground-breaking book compares work by painters such as Egon Schiele, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Pierre ..."