Portraits: Richard Avedon

Portraits: Richard Avedon 

Signed by Artist 

First Edition/ Impression

Hardback - Fine Condition, slight toning to extremities 

About 

With uncompromising directness, Avedon portrayed his subjects against a white background, with no extraneous details to distract from the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress, and gesture. This challenging innovation, coupled with the artist’s intense interest in his subjects and mastery of his craft, resulted in mesmerizing portraits—among them Truman Capote, Willem de Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as the uncelebrated Americans of his project, In the American West that rival the greatest works in the portrait tradition.