In my visual memory, Richard Avedon, the great, great photographer whose work spanning some sixty years has brought us face to face with actors, dancers, celebrities, civil rights activists, heads of state, inventors, musicians, artists and writers, is first and foremost the author of a series of legendary fashion photographs. There is a taste for the unseen, and there is also a piece of Vogue history. There is the estrangement caused by seeing Marylin Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn in nightclubs or in unusual settings, rather than according to traditional stiffened poses.
Organized in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, the exhibition rewrites the story of a master photographer who changed the meaning of the image in the 20th century.Īvedon’s innovative language emerged from his collaboration with Harper’s Bazaar magazine beginning in 1944: not just faces of famous models, there is much more in these shots. 106 shots that revolutionized the concept of fashion photography. Relationships, the exhibition at Palazzo Reale that opens Milan Fashion Week. 106 shots trace the 60-year career of a great master. Now the script is available in book form, illustrated with stills.Fashion is the closest architecture to the body, and it is steeped in desire. (Inventory Press, paper, $19.95.) Peele’s 2017 thriller made the director’s name and won the Oscar for best original screenplay.
GET OUT: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, by Jordan Peele and Tananarive Due. These photographs, for Chanel, Revlon and more, provide an elegant window onto postwar consumerism and celebrity.
(Abrams, $125.) Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Avedon’s name was synonymous with commercial success and high fashion. (Cameron Books, $250.) Not for the faint of heart, this two-volume retrospective of the Oscar-winning special makeup effects artist revisits his spookiest creations, among them the zombies for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video.ĪVEDON ADVERTISING, by Richard Avedon et al. (Rizzoli, $65.) The actor pays tribute to his father, an Abstract Expressionist painter and poet whose five-decade career made him a New York School peer of Rothko and others. ROBERT DE NIRO, SR.: Paintings, Drawings, and Writings: 1942-1993, introduction by Robert De Niro Jr.
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