Richard Avedon’s Naked Murals A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum showcases the terrific physical presence of a trio of the photographer’s large-scale works. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/richard-avedons-overwhelming-murals A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum showcases the terrific physical presence of a trio of the photographer’s large-scale works.
Richard Avedon, a Photographer Who Wanted to Outrun the Glitz Factor Philip Gefter’s new biography, “What Becomes a Legend Most,” argues for Avedon’s place as one of the 20th century’s most consequential artists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/books/review-richard-avedon-biography-what-becomes-legend-most-philip-gefter.html The issue is pressing while reading “What Becomes a Legend Most,” Philip Gefter’s wise and ebullient new biography of Richard…
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Joint Examination of American Identity In 1964, the two artists published “Nothing Personal.” This fall, a reissue will include this image of one of the last living Americans born into slavery. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/richard-avedon-and-james-baldwins-joint-examination-of-american-identity Avedon and Baldwin were two of the late twentieth century’s more self-exposed creators. The…
NYTimes.com says: Five years after Richard Avedon’s death at 81 the International Center of Photography is setting the record straight. Avedon was indeed a great artist, and his fashion photographs are his greatest work.
The question was always a problem for Richard Avedon. Even in the final decade of his life and career as the most celebrated, ridiculed, honored, debated portrait and fashion photographer of his time, journalists and critics would posit the same intolerable, unbelievable notion: Is photography really art? And it didn’t sound much kinder coming from…
