Richard Avedon Immortal
Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004
$104.00
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the ‘avalanche of age’, dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837290352 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837290350 |
| Author: | Richard Avedon, Paul Roth, Adam Gopnik, Vince Aletti, Gaëlle Morel |
| Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.45kg |
| Dimensions: | 280mm x 240mm x 24mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
As featured in The New York Times, Guardian, and AD France
‘A beautifully produced volume of striking images.’ – Kirkus
‘Mortality has never looked so magnetic.’ – Dandelion Chandelier
About The Author
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was one of the most influential and best-known photographers of the second half of the 20th century.
Paul Roth is Director of The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Adam Gopnik is an essayist and has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986.
Vince Aletti is a critic and curator.
Gaelle Morel is Exhibitions Curator of The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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