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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100812994434
ISBN-139780812994438
eBay Product ID (ePID)235262026
Product Key Features
Book TitleAvedon : Something Personal
Number of Pages720 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Photographers / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorSteven M. L. Aronson, Norma Stevens
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight35.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"It's a good time, this book. There's a feeling of arriving at a party where everyone is at least two drinks (and who knows what else) ahead of you. . . . Everyone saw one side of [Richard Avedon]--but together the testimonies of his assistants, models and lovers add up to a mosaic of the man." -- The New York Times "If you like tales of obsessive perfectionism and mercurial extravagance, then you'll never be bored with this lavishly illustrated verbal portrait of one of the twentieth century's photographic masters. . . . Intimate and dishy in its conversational tone, the book makes you feel as though you are nose to nose trading stories with a vivacious confidant, your most fabulous friend telling you unabashed and juicy truths. Part oral history, part memoir, part biography, this roomy account fills in the renowned white space surrounding Avedon, a man who curated his reputation as carefully as he did his output, remaining relentlessly private even as he revealed the era's most incandescent personalities in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker and more." -- Chicago Tribune "Multifaceted, thoughtful . . . Norma Stevens was Avedon's studio director and collaborator for three decades, and with writer Steven M. L. Aronson, she attempts to get at the man behind the camera, including oral history-style reminiscences from the likes of Calvin Klein, Naomi Campbell, Bruce Weber and Mikhail Baryshnikov. . . . [ Avedon: Something Personal tries] to get at something Avedon himself stated so beautifully and succinctly: 'The best portrait is always the truth.'" -- ArtsATL
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal770.92
SynopsisAn intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who "helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture" ( The New York Times ), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson. Richard Avedon was arguably the world's most famous photographer--as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper's Bazaar and then Vogue) , groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. He also went on the road to find and photograph remarkable uncelebrated faces, with an eye toward constructing a grand composite picture of America. Avedon dazzled even his most dazzling subjects. He possessed a mystique so unique it was itself a kind of genius--everyone fell under his spell. But the Richard Avedon the world saw was perhaps his greatest creation: he relentlessly curated his reputation and controlled his image, managing to remain, for all his exposure, among the most private of celebrities. No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for thirty years was his business partner and closest confidant. In Avedon: Something Personal --equal parts memoir, biography, and oral history, including an intimate portrait of the legendary Avedon studio--Stevens and co-author Steven M. L. Aronson masterfully trace Avedon's life from his birth to his death, in 2004, at the age of eighty-one, while at work in Texas for The New Yorker (whose first-ever staff photographer he had become in 1992). The book contains startlingly candid reminiscences by Mike Nichols, Calvin Klein, Claude Picasso, Renata Adler, Brooke Shields, David Remnick, Naomi Campbell, Twyla Tharp, Jerry Hall, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bruce Weber, Cindy Crawford, Donatella Versace, Jann Wenner, and Isabella Rossellini, among dozens of others. Avedon: Something Personal is the confiding, compelling full story of a man who for half a century was an enormous influence on both high and popular culture, on both fashion and art--to this day he remains the only artist to have had not one but two retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his lifetime. Not unlike Richard Avedon's own defining portraits, the book delivers the person beneath the surface, with all his contradictions and complexities, and in all his touching humanity.
