The Sixties
Richard Avedon
SIGNED Richard Avedon
Doon Arbus
New York. Random House. 1999. Stated first edition. Hardcover. With
the dust jacket. SIGNED by Richard Avedon on the front pastedown behind the dust jacket's front flap. If you came
of age in the 1960s, this book will jog your memory. The front cover is a classic
psychedelic of John Lennon and the rear cover is Abbey Hoffman giving us a well
known gesture of discontent. Text and photographs in this copy are terrific.
Very good in a good plus dust jacket.
The Sixties is the product of a 30 year collaboration
between photographer Richard Avedon and writer Doon Arbus, whose images and
words combine in this volume to create a compelling portrait of one of the 20th
century's most tumultuous decades. Avedon, the celebrated photographer whose
portraits of some of the best-known personalities of our age have graced the
pages of Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and The New Yorker
magazines since the early 1950s, was prolific during the 60s. Looked at
together, his images from those years create a visual time capsule. This large
book is filled with a cacophony of Yippies, Black Panthers, Weathermen, Hare
Krishnas, Andy Warhol Factory Superstars, pop artists, rock musicians,
astronauts, pacifists, politicians, electroshock therapists, media
correspondents, civil rights lawyers, anti-war activists and more, all shot
against his signature white background. Arbus, a novelist and writer for
magazines including Rolling Stone and The Nation (and the
daughter of photographer Diane Arbus), conducted interviews with many of the
subjects. And snippets of those conversations provide an intimate and
unforgettable document of the tension, vulnerability, anger, recklessness, hope
and empowerment many people experienced during that era. Brief biographies of
the portrait sitters and a chronology that spans the first signs of the war in Vietnam
in 1960 to its final conclusion in 1973 provide excellent context for the
images. The Sixties is riveting. --A.C. Smith
Very good in a good plus dust jacket. The boards are clean
and bright with light wear. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light wear and a tiny
repaired tear to the top edge and two small repaired tears to the bottom edge. Several
creases to the DJ top and bottom edges. Corners and edges scuffed and rubbed. Not
price clipped. Internally, the hinges are sound. Binding tight. Illustrations
clean and bright. Hint of tanning to page edges.
SIGNED Richard Avedon.