Portraits of Power
by Richard Avedon
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 3865216757
- ISBN 13
- 9783865216755
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About This Item
Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to textblock edges. Black and white photographs throughout. 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). Record # 353568
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 353568
- Title
- Portraits of Power
- Author
- Richard Avedon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 3865216757
- ISBN 13
- 9783865216755
- Publisher
- Steidl Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Germany
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Art, Photography, , .
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- art;
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