AVEDON, Richard. Avedon: An Autobiography.

AVEDON, Richard. Avedon: An Autobiography.AVEDON, Richard. Avedon: An Autobiography. New York: Random House. 1993. Folio. Original brown cloth, titles in red to spine and front cover, photographic portrait of the artist tipped to rear, in acetate wrapper; pp. [438]; photo illustrated throughout; minimal shelf wear to boards, slight warping to internal pages, wrapper with small chip to head of spine and small closed tear to edge of rear panel; a near fine copy; signed by Richard Avedon dated

AVEDON, Richard. Avedon: An Autobiography. New York: Random House. 1993.

Folio. Original brown cloth, titles in red to spine and front cover, photographic portrait of the artist tipped to rear, in acetate wrapper; pp. [438]; photo-illustrated throughout; minimal shelf wear to boards, slight warping to internal pages, wrapper with small chip to head of spine and small closed tear to edge of rear panel; a near-fine copy; signed by Richard Avedon dated ‘1993’ in black to fly-leaf.

First edition, first issue, boldly signed by Richard Avedon.

This book was compiled by Richard Avedon as a presentation of his life through two hundred and forty-eight photographs taken over the course of his long career. Rather than offering a chronological account, Avedon grouped the photographs into three sections. As he explained in the introduction, ‘this book tracks the path of three crucial illusions in my life. The first section is about the illusion of laughter, and a young man’s discovery of the fine line between hilarity and panic. The second section is about the illusion of power. The third is about the loss of all illusions’. Through a considered interweaving of different areas of his life’s work, Avedon reflects on his own experience as a crucial chronicler of the twentieth century.

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