Product Description

This is a major retrospective of the influential fashion photography of Richard Avedon, spanning nearly six decades. Encompassing six decades of extraordinary work, "Avedon Fashion 1944-2000" includes more than 200 works by Richard Avedon, from vintage prints and magazine layouts to contact sheets and personal correspondence. Showing Avedon's groundbreaking early work for Harper's Bazaar to his later work at "Vogue", "Egoiste" and "The New Yorker", this volume represents a major retrospective of the photographer's work. The book has been assembled by Carol Squiers, curator at the International Center of Photography and photography critic Vince Aletti.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3974 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 372 pages

About the Author
Carol Squiers is a curator at the International Center of Photography. She has contributed to a wide variety of books and journals, including Artforum, the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Parkett, Art in America and Aperture. Vince Aletti is adjunct curator at the International Center of Photography. He reviews photography exhibitions for The New York's Goings on About Town and was the art editor of The Village Voice from 1994 to 2005. Philippe Garner is the head of photography and design sales at Christie's London.

Customer Reviews

good for fashion students
a great book for Avedons fashion work, the new more contemporary collection of photos added onto the end completes the best of Avedons fashion work from the start of his career to the present.