Avedon's France : old world, new look / Robert M. Rubin, Marianne Le Galliard.

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English
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  • New York : Abrams ; Paris, France : Bibliothèque nationale de France, [2016]
  • ©2016
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799 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 19 cm

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    Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives) and substantive essays by the authors. In addition to five portfolios of French sitters spanning a lifetime of portraiture, it looks at Avedon's apprenticeship to his mentor, Alexei Brodovitch; his encounters with French fashion; his idealised version of Paris in the movie Funny Face; his fresh take on the Belle Epoque in his book on Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diary of a Century; and his fruitful association with the magazine Egoiste later in his life. Avedon's France offers a full account of Avedon's restless pursuit of new ways of looking at the world, and it reveals a master image maker, a true artist for his time.
    Notes
    • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, October 18, 2016-February 26, 2017.
    • Translation of: La France d'Avedon.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface / Laurence Engel
    • Old world, new look / Robert M. Rubin
    • Lartigue by Avedon: A labor of love / Marianne Le Galliard
    • Coup de foudre
    • Lartigue: Made in USA
    • After the barricades
    • Nouveau souffle: Egoïste
    • Interview: Nicole Wisniak / Robert M. Rubin
    • Avedon and France: A selective chronology.
    ISBN
    • 9781419726002 ((hardback))
    • 1419726005 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2018304464
    OCLC
    957748074
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