New Releases by Richard Avedon

An exquisitely produced new publication of In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, a landmark project of classic American photography First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the book is being reissued on its 40th anniversary in 2025. Richard Avedon was the greatest American photographer of his generation. For In the American West, he traveled for five years, meeting and photographing the ordinary people populating America's most extraordinary landscape. The resulting book includes 103 meticulously printed black-and-white photographs, an essay by Avedon on his working methods and portrait philosophy, and a journal of the project by Laura Wilson. The reissuing of this legendary book, out of print for more than a decade, is a major publishing event in the photography world.

The first survey of Richard Avedon's influential advertising work Richard Avedon was one of the most sought-after and influential advertising photographers in America from the 1940s to the beginning of the 21st century, creating work that exemplified Madison Avenue at the height of its influence in world culture. Working with a talented cadre of models, copy writers, and art directors, Avedon made images that enticed consumers to embrace the new, especially in the areas of fashion and beauty, with campaigns for Revlon, Chanel, Calvin Klein, Dior, and Versace, among many others. Avedon Advertising tells this story, reproducing memorable ads that range from the buoyant 1940s and 1950s, when post-war prosperity opened up new experiences to consumers; through the explosive '60s; and into the era defined by celebrity culture and global brand awareness.

An intimate look at the young Kennedy family through photographs taken by the world renowned photographer in the weeks leading up to JFK's 1961 inauguration offers insight into the expectations placed on the family and their interpersonal relationships.

'Woman in the Mirror' is a survey of photographs of women throughout Richard Avedon's career, including images of both celebrities and ordinary citizens in his glamorous and unsparing style.

This work offers a portrait of the sixties by photographer, Richard Avedon. In addition to the photographs of those who characterized the era, there are fifty interviews including Dr Spock and Janis Joplin. Portraits include The Beatles, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and American Nazi Party.

Le photographe Richard Avedon et l'écrivain Doon Arbus collaborent depuis trente ans à l'élaboration de ce livre. A travers les photographies et les interviews qu'ils réalisèrent alors, transparaît l'esprit d'une époque restée intacte, comme capturée. Rencontrer quelqu'un et coucher avec, ça veut dire quelque chose, mais pas autant qu'avant. JANIS JOPLIN, SEPTEMBER 1969 Dans une société où l'oppression est institutionnalisée, la seule chose à faire c'est de surprendre le gouvernement et les entreprises la main dans le sac - en train d'arnaquer les autres, tu vois. FLORYNCE KENNEDY, AUGUST 1969 J'avais tellement peur de faire des bêtises et de me faire attraper. DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK, SEPTEMBER 1969 Les liens qui existent entre la rhétorique et la poésie, entre les propos d'un Black Panther et ceux d'un chanteur de rock ou d'un militant pacifiste, entre les cicatrices d'un artiste Pop et celles d'une victime du napalm donnent au livre une structure d'une force et d'une indépendance particulières.

In 1963-64, former high school friends Richard Avedon, at the time one of the world’s most famous photographers, and James Baldwin, best-selling novelist and essayist and a leading literary voice in the American civil rights movement, collaborated on Nothing Personal, a book about the state of life in America. Avedon’s subjects range from civil rights icons, to intellectuals, politicians, pop singers, patients in a mental institution, and ordinary Americans, all carefully juxtaposed, cropped, and tightly sequenced. Here, the American Nazi Party contends with poet Allen Ginsberg, and a weary General Eisenhower gives way to the sway of Malcolm X. Depleted mental institution patients call out for human warmth, and are followed by the embrace of mother and child. Baldwin’s four-part essay offers a critique of a society that is disconnected, unjust and divisive, and therefore in the midst of an existential crisis. In a highly personal and pertinent testimony, he writes about his own experience of harassment by a racist police officer in his native New York City. Yet Baldwin, like Avedon, ends his work with the inescapable need for – and power of – love.