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 informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach. One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazine's February 28 issue, with photographs by Avedon inside. Just before the magazine hit the newsstands and was delivered to over 6.5 million people, a set of photographs, comprised mostly of the LOOK images, was released by the White House and appeared in newspapers across the country.
During his lifetime, Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harper's Bazaar. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than seventy-five images from that donation for The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family, making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time. Perich's introductory essay—accompanied by a wealth of archival photographs of both Avedon and the Kennedy family—provides historical background on the two sittings within a political and cultural context and critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century. A foreword by Robert Dallek, distinguished historian and author of the bet-selling An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, provides authoritative and compelling insight to one of the most fascinating presidents in American history.

The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family

Arts & Photography

Perich, Shannon Thomas

AVEDON,Richard

History & Criticism

Harper Design

Avedon An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Random House]

Published on occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1994. Includes bibliographic references and index. Essay by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik.

Evidence: 1944-94

Random House and Eastman Kodak

Absolutely mint First Edition copy of Farrar Straus Giroux 1978 issue, First edition stated. Folio of Avedon';s work over 30 years containing some of the artist's most iconic photographs. Introductory essay by Harold Brodkey. Photographic cover with mylar jacket. The boards and jacket are in excellent condition. The book is not marked and the binding is tight. In original red AVEDON printed acetate dust jacket (clear printed actate issued w/ book), also mint; jacket shows no yellowing whatever. No wear of any sort; clean, tight, and completely unmarked throughout. A marvelous copy! Oversize pictorial hardcover.

Avedon Photographs: 1947-1977. With an Essay by Harold Brodkey

Photography & Video

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Over-size hardback book with clear dust jacket titled AVEDON: Photographs 1947-1977. With an essay by Harold Brodkey.

Avedon: Photographs,1947-1977

Portraits.

See notes

Richard Avedon's In the American West is widely regarded as a landmark project in photographic history and a definitive expression of the power of photographic art. First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the book is being reissued to accompany a 20th-anniversary re-showing of the exhibition at the same museum. Avedon, who died in 2004, was the greatest American photographer of his generation. For In the American West,  he traveled throughout five years, meeting and photographing the plain people of the West: ranch workers, roustabouts, bar girls, drifters, and gamblers. The resulting book includes 120 exquisitely printed black-and-white photographs, an essay by Avedon on his working methods and portrait philosophy, a journal of the project by Laura Wilson, and a new foreword by John Rohrbach. The reissuing of this legendary book, out of print for more than a decade, is a major event in the photography world.

RICHARD AVEDON IN THE AMERICAN WEST /ANGLAIS

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: November 2007 Publisher: Thames &amp; Hudson. Limited Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Richard Avedons photographs of John and Jacqueline Kennedy and their two children combine politics. the style. public. interest and photographic history to provide a compelling glimpse of two icons of American life. This title critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the 20th century.

Richard Avedon: the Kennedys: Portrait of a Family by Shannon Thomas Perich (2007) Hardcover

A startling new look at the life's work of a photographer who had an enormous impact on the way we see the world.

An Autobiography Richard Avedon

Surveys each stage of Avedon's career, including portraits and fashion photographs

Evidence: Nineteen Forty Four - Nineteen Ninety Four

Gopnik, Adam

Whitney Museum of American Art

Livingston, Jane

Shanahan, Mary

Random House, Inc.

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