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Avedon´s France: Old World, New Look
Robert Rubin
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Description for Avedon´s France: Old World, New Look
Hardback. An intimate portrait of Avedon's lifelong engagement with the culture, art, literature, cinema, and fashion of France Num Pages: 792 pages, 580 colour and black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 193 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1518.
Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives); and substantive essays by the authors. In addition to five portfolios of French sitters spanning a lifetime of portraiture, it looks at Avedon's apprenticeship to his mentor, Alexei Brodovitch; his encounters with French fashion; his idealized version of Paris in the movie Funny Face; his fresh take on the belle epoque in his book on Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diary of a Century; and his fruitful association ... Read more
Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives); and substantive essays by the authors. In addition to five portfolios of French sitters spanning a lifetime of portraiture, it looks at Avedon's apprenticeship to his mentor, Alexei Brodovitch; his encounters with French fashion; his idealized version of Paris in the movie Funny Face; his fresh take on the belle epoque in his book on Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diary of a Century; and his fruitful association ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abrams
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1518g
Number of Pages
792
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781419726002
SKU
V9781419726002
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About Robert Rubin
After 25 years as a commodity and currency trader, Robert M. Rubin has devoted himself to writing and curating exhibitions on art, architecture, and cinema. Rubin has been instrumental in preserving and bringing works by Jean Prouve, Pierre Chareau and Buckminster Fuller to the public eye. He has written about Alexander Calder and Reyner Banham, and is the coauthor, with ... Read more
Reviews for Avedon´s France: Old World, New Look
Avedon's France: Old World New Look is, frankly, a joy. Sunday Herald