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Observations is a collaborative coffee table book with photography by Richard Avedon, commentary by Truman Capote and design by Alexey Brodovitch.
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Like Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans,’ which we discussed last month in the Photo Book Club, American photographer Richard Avedon’s first book, ‘Observations,’ was published in 1959. And, like ‘The Americans’ it was included in Andrew Roth’s ‘The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century (PPP Editions, 2001), now itself a semi...
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Observations Photographs By Richard Avedon. Hardcover – January 1, 1959. Photographs by Richard Avedon with text by Truman Capote in French. Approx. 15 in. x 11 in. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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8 de abr. de 2011 · These are the books where Avedon most clearly and successfully gives us what I want from him: the sense of confrontation that defined his white background portraiture. Another important formal element that we see in Observations is the development of Avedon’s strategies of montage: his use of two images on facing pages to make ...
21 de set. de 2015 · Observations, with photographs by Richard Avedon, texts by Truman Capote, and graphic design by Alexey Brodovitch, was the height of sophisticated elegance when published in 1959. And it is without a doubt among the most influential photographic books of the twen- tieth century.
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This early book on Richard Avedon presents the photographer’s striking portraits from the 1940s and ’50s of luminaries as well as a profile of Avedon by Truman Capote and literary sketches of the portrait subjects by the novelist.
27 de set. de 2020 · Observations by Richard Avedon, 1959, Simon and Schuster edition, in English.
