An Autobiography
by Richard Avedon
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679409211
- ISBN 13
- 9780679409212
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About This Item
Random House,Eastman Kodak. 1993. Large folio protected in original acetate jacket. Brown cloth boards with red lettering. Random House First printing with requisite number line beginning in 2. Prints shown in book were originally made on Eastman Kodak Elite paper and printed by Amilcare Pizzi, Milan, Italy. "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." (New York Times). Avedon's (1923-2004) fashion and portrait photos were commonly seen in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle magazines. Inscribed to Desiree with rare caricature drawing in 1994. Lacking cardboard shipping box. Index of all photographs in book can be found as the last pages (unnumbered, 280 thus). 11x14 in.
Synopsis
RICHARD AVEDON (b. 1923) was the editor, with his classmate James Baldwin, of The Magpie , the literary magazine at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In 1942 he joined the photography department of the U.S. merchant marine. He was a staff photographer at I>Harper's Bazaar (1951-1965) and Vogue (1966-1988), and he collaborated with James Baldwin on Nothing Personal (1964), a book about the civil rights movement. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer at The New Yorker .
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 197
- Title
- An Autobiography
- Author
- Richard Avedon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0679409211
- ISBN 13
- 9780679409212
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group & Eastman Kodak Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 280
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Avedon, Photography, fashion, Vogue, Portrait
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