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Striking proof of how one artist’s gay eye can shed light on others
Gift Quality. Sealed in original publisher shrinkwrap. Brand New.
In Slipcase. Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened. Le titre complet de ce livre édité par la Fraenkel Gallery de New York est Eye of the Beholder - Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon. Cet ouvrage est un recueil de 5 fascicules thématiques présentés dans un emboîtage souple :
- Vol.1 : Diane Arbus (36 pages - 14 illustrations)
- Vol.2 : The Countess de Castiglione (44 pages - 18 illustrations)
- Vol.3 : Peter Hujar (24 pages - 8 illustrations)
- Vol.4 : Irving Penn (44 pages - 18 illustrations)
- Vol.5 : Etcetera (92 pages - 45 illustrations)
Countess de Castiglione, etc.
When Richard Avedon died on October 1st, 2004, he left an
extraordinary collection of photographs that spans two centuries and
reflects an eye attuned equally to masterworks and mug shot. Few had
seen the private collection with which he surrounded himself in his
apartment on East 75th Street in New York. These photographs, assembled
over five decades, are the subject of Eye of the Photographs from the
Collection of Richard Avedon, comprising five fully-illustrated volumes
housed in a sturdy slipcase. Avedon knew a good photograph when he saw
one. Though he was far more interested in making pictures than
collecting them, he lived surrounded by photographs of every kind, from
the exalted to the unknown. “From the time he was 10 and the owner of a box camera,” Truman Capote
wrote about Avedon in “Observations,” a book they collaborated on in
1959, “the walls of his room were ceiling to floor papered with pictures
torn from magazines, photographs by Munkacsi and Steichen and Man Ray.”“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is
transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion… All
photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” -- Richard Avedon
The photographs in Avedon's collection were
acquired primarily by purchase, in some cases by gift. Several bear
inscriptions of respect or affection from other artists, notably
Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographers with
whom he forged significant friendships. Avedon was also the first of
only three people to purchase Diane Arbus's landmark portfolio A Box of
Ten Photographs, a gesture that signaled so much to the artist that she
re-titled his portfolio to include an eleventh print. Avedon's
collections of portraits by Peter Hujar, of cigarette still lifes by
Irving Penn, and of studies of the 19th century beauty, the Countess de
Castiglione (1827-99), are unrivaled.
