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RICHARD AVEDON: PORTRAITS
(AVEDON, RICHARD). Avedon, Richard, Maria Morris Hambourg & Mia Fineman. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (68pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Mary Shanahan. "Portraits" is the beautifully produced hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Richard Avedon's 2002 Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective of the same name. Printed in the form of a continuous two-sided leporello bound between two heavy pictorial boards, it features a selection of Avedon's iconic stark black and white images of subjects set against white scrims framed with the noted late photographer's characteristic heavy black borders.Included are images of the likes of Andy Warhol's Factory entourage, Francis Bacon, Robert Frank, Alexey Brodovitch, Truman Capote, Willem De Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Roy Lichtenstein, Marilyn Monroe, and many more. A brand new, pristine example of the 2002 first printing - not to be confused with the 1972 Richard Avedon monograph of the same title - housed in the publisher's shrinkwrapped pictorial slipcase, as issued. 0-8109-3540-6 Inventory Number: 025657
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