Avedon: Women

Avedon Women Hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications 2013 200 pages ISBN: 0847842819 ISBN-13: 9780847842810 This book accompanies the Fall 2013 exhibition of Richard Avedon´s photography to be held at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills. Over his sixty-year career, photographer Richard Avedon was renowned for his distinctive, transformative eye. Women were often his subject, through his fashion work for Harper´s Bazaar and Vogue and in his portraiture of both the famous and the unknown. What might have been pictured as prosaic or unattractive through another photographer´s lens was presented by Avedon as unconventional, surprising, and sometimes revelatory. Through approximately 120 images, Avedon: Women explores Avedon´s unique artistic perspective. The book includes essays by Joan Juliet Buck and Abigail Solomon-Godeau. -Dynamic unbound format available in three colorful translucent plastic covers, each with a unique image. -32 b&w contact prints from the Avedon archives, many previously unpublished-26 color images- two reproductions of vintage tear sheets and 24 rarely seen color transparencies from the Avedon archives-1 double gatefold, removable from layouts-4 Vellum Overlay spreads