[1st ed] Portraits (Signed by Avedon)
First edition (stated) of this collection of portraits by fashion and portrait photographer nonpareil Richard Avedon. Published in 1976 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Introductory essay by Harold Rosenberg. 4to (12” x 9”) hard cover with printed dust jacket, unpaginated, black-and-white photos throughout, many full-page, including several pull-out. Subjects include Alberto Giacometti, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ezra Pound, Marilyn Monroe, the Everly Brothers, Daughters of the American Revolution, Dwight David Eisenhower, Renata Adler, Willem de Kooning, John Martin, Alger Hiss, Herbert Marcuse, Truman Capote, Jean Genet, Alexey Brodovitch, Jasper Johns, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andy Warhol and members of the factory (clothed and unclothed), Dr. Benjamin Spock, Edmund Wilson, The Chicago Seven, James Galanos, Rose Mary Woods, William F. Buckley, Jr., George Meany, Buckminster Fuller, Jorge Luis Borges, Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Horowitz, John Szarkowski, William Burroughs, Robert Frank, Oscar Levant, Henry Miller, Carson McCullers, Jean Renoir, Groucho Marx, R.D. Laing, Isak Dinesen, John Ford, plus the artist’s father and wife.Boldly signed by Avedon on the FFE. Slight lean to spine. Light foxing to top edge. Light bumping and moderate rubbing to dj.
First edition (stated) of this collection of portraits by fashion and portrait photographer nonpareil Richard Avedon. Published in 1976 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Introductory essay by Harold Rosenberg. 4to (12” x 9”) hard cover with printed dust jacket, unpaginated, black-and-white photos throughout, many full-page, including several pull-out. Subjects include Alberto Giacometti, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ezra Pound, Marilyn Monroe, the Everly Brothers, Daughters of the American Revolution, Dwight David Eisenhower, Renata Adler, Willem de Kooning, John Martin, Alger Hiss, Herbert Marcuse, Truman Capote, Jean Genet, Alexey Brodovitch, Jasper Johns, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andy Warhol and members of the factory (clothed and unclothed), Dr. Benjamin Spock, Edmund Wilson, The Chicago Seven, James Galanos, Rose Mary Woods, William F. Buckley, Jr., George Meany, Buckminster Fuller, Jorge Luis Borges, Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Horowitz, John Szarkowski, William Burroughs, Robert Frank, Oscar Levant, Henry Miller, Carson McCullers, Jean Renoir, Groucho Marx, R.D. Laing, Isak Dinesen, John Ford, plus the artist’s father and wife.Boldly signed by Avedon on the FFE. Slight lean to spine. Light foxing to top edge. Light bumping and moderate rubbing to dj.
First edition (stated) of this collection of portraits by fashion and portrait photographer nonpareil Richard Avedon. Published in 1976 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Introductory essay by Harold Rosenberg. 4to (12” x 9”) hard cover with printed dust jacket, unpaginated, black-and-white photos throughout, many full-page, including several pull-out. Subjects include Alberto Giacometti, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ezra Pound, Marilyn Monroe, the Everly Brothers, Daughters of the American Revolution, Dwight David Eisenhower, Renata Adler, Willem de Kooning, John Martin, Alger Hiss, Herbert Marcuse, Truman Capote, Jean Genet, Alexey Brodovitch, Jasper Johns, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andy Warhol and members of the factory (clothed and unclothed), Dr. Benjamin Spock, Edmund Wilson, The Chicago Seven, James Galanos, Rose Mary Woods, William F. Buckley, Jr., George Meany, Buckminster Fuller, Jorge Luis Borges, Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Horowitz, John Szarkowski, William Burroughs, Robert Frank, Oscar Levant, Henry Miller, Carson McCullers, Jean Renoir, Groucho Marx, R.D. Laing, Isak Dinesen, John Ford, plus the artist’s father and wife.Boldly signed by Avedon on the FFE. Slight lean to spine. Light foxing to top edge. Light bumping and moderate rubbing to dj.
