Avedon: Something Personal

Not unlike richard avedon’s own defining portraits, the book delivers the person beneath the surface, with all his contradictions and complexities, and in all his touching humanity. L. In avedon: something personal—equal parts memoir, and oral history, biography, including an intimate portrait of the legendary Avedon studio—Stevens and co-author Steven M.

L. No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for thirty years was his business partner and closest confidant. Richard avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer—as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Aronson masterfully trace avedon’s life from his birth to his death, at the age of eighty-one, in 2004, while at work in Texas for The New Yorker whose first-ever staff photographer he had become in 1992.

Avedon: something personal is the confiding, compelling full story of a man who for half a century was an enormous influence on both high and popular culture, on both fashion and art—to this day he remains the only artist to have had not one but two retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his lifetime.

Avedon dazzled even his most dazzling subjects. Aronson. But the richard avedon the world saw was perhaps his greatest creation: he relentlessly curated his reputation and controlled his image, managing to remain, for all his exposure, among the most private of celebrities. An intimate biography of richard avedon, beauty and culture” the New York Times, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M.

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American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank

Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27, 000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. Frank helped found the american independent cinema of the 1960s and made a legendary film with the Rolling Stones. Born and raised in wartime switzerland, success, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, or fame.

Leaving his rigid switzerland for the more fluid united states in 1947, writer rudy wirlitzer, and peter orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, painter Willem de Kooning, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, Bob Dylan, actor Zero Mostel, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, and more.

His was an america nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision. And then he turned his back on certain success, giving up photography to reinvent himself as a film and video maker.

American witness is a portrait of a singular artist and the country that he saw. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. From the author of the acclaimed james brown biography The One comes the first in-depth biography of renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, best known for his landmark book The Americans.




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Richard Avedon & James Baldwin: Nothing Personal

Depleted mental institution patients call out for human warmth, and are followed by the embrace of mother and child. Deploying both image and text, Avedon and Baldwin examine the formation of identity, and the bonds that both underlie and undermine human connection. Als also movingly reflects on how Nothing Personal impacted his own life, as well as his friendship with Avedon.

Avedon and baldwin's american journey richard avedon and james baldwin s landmark 1964 book finally back in print This meticulous reprint of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin s Nothing Personal explores the complexities and contradictions still at the center of the American experience especially timely in the age of Donald Trump.

An accompanying 72-page booklet features a fresh essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als, correspondence, and many of Avedon s unpublished outtakes, preliminary layouts and ephemera. Baldwin s four-part essay offers a critique of a society that is disconnected, unjust and divisive, and therefore in the midst of an existential crisis.

An oversized book in its own white slipcase, the striking placement of both photographs and text revolutionized the design and packaging of photography books. Yet baldwin, like avedon, ends his work with the inescapable need for and power of love. Sound familiar? When first published in 1964, avedon and baldwin s vision of America was controversial, and both men endured harsh criticism for being liberal elites and Hollywood moralists who were not representing the true feelings of real Americans.

Here, the american nazi party contends with poet Allen Ginsberg, and a weary General Eisenhower gives way to the sway of Malcolm X.


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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992

Summoned from london in hopes that she can save condé nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.

Com, paste magazine, the economist, the guardian, Entertainment Weekly, & VogueTina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. In the diary's cinematic pages, the comedy, the drama, and the struggle of running an "it" magazine come to life.

Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood. The vanity fair diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding.

In the face of rampant skepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine. Here are the inside stories of vanity fair scoops and covers that sold millions―the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore.

Brown's vanity fair diaries is also a woman's journey, their prematurely born son, of making a home in a new country and of the deep bonds with her husband, and their daughter. Astute, often riotously funny, open-hearted, Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.




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Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent

In an exquisitely intimate, muse, sometimes painful personal and professional relationship, Loulou was his creative right hand, alter ego and the virtuoso behind all the flamboyant accessories that were a crucial component of the YSL “look. For thirty years, yves relied on loulou to inspire him, until his retirement in 2002, make him laugh and talk him off the ledge―the enchanted formula that brought him from one historic collection to the next.

Yves’s many tributes shape loulou’s memory, as if everything there was to know about this fugitive, towering fur toques, Giacometti-like figure could be told by her clanking bronze cuffs, the turquoise boulders on her fingers and her working friendship with the man who put women in pants. Behind yves’s encomiums are a pair of aristocrat parents―loulou’s shiftless French father and menacingly chic English mother―who abandoned her to a childhood of foster care and sexual abuse; Loulou’s recurring desperation to leave Yves and go out on her own; and the grandiose myths surrounding her family.

Loulou & yves unspools an elusive fashion idol―nymphomaniacal, heedless and up to her bracelets in coke and Boizel champagne―at the core of what used to be called “le beau monde. ”. Loulou felt that her life had been kidnapped by the operatic workings of the House of Saint Laurent, and in her last years faced financial ruin.

But another, a classic “number two” with a contempt for convention, darker story lifts the veil on Loulou, and exposes the underbelly of fashion at its highest level. Descending in a direct line from coco chanel and elsa schiaparelli, as the “highest of haute bohemia, aged just sixty-four, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, ” a feckless adventuress in the art of living―and the one person Yves Saint Laurent could not live without.




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Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946–2004

Texts by jeffrey fraenkel, judith thurman, christoph Ribbat, Geoff Dyer, Rune Gade and curator Helle Crenzien offer a sophisticated and thorough composite view of Avedon's career. It includes 125 reproductions of avedon's greatest work from the entire range of his oeuvre―including fashion photographs, reportage and portraits―and spans from his early Italian subjects of the 1940s to his 2004 portrait of the Icelandic pop star Björk.

In august 2007 denmark's renowned louisiana museum of modern Art presented Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946–2004, the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon's work since his death in 2004. Used book in Good Condition. This beautifully produced catalogue, designed by the renowned Danish graphic designer Michael Jensen, features deluxe tritone printing and varnish on premium paper.

It also features a small number of color images, including what must be one of the most famous photographic portraits of the twentieth century, "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" 1981.


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Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016

In this new collection from annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Each of the photographs documents contemporary culture with an artist's eye, wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable and distinguished figures.

Used book in Good Condition. In this new collection, leibovitz has captured the most influential and compelling figures of the last decade in the style that has made her one of the most beloved talents of our time. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz. Annie leibovitz: portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005.

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Irving Penn: Centennial

The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer Irving Penn 1917–2009 was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Metropolitan museum of art. An enlightening introduction situates his work in the context of the various artistic, social, and political environments and events that affected the content of his photographs.

Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, nuance, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, and detail. This indispensable book features one of the largest selections of Penn’s photographs ever compiled, including famous and beloved images as well as works that have never been published.

Celebrating the centennial of Penn’s birth, this lavish volume spans the entirety of his groundbreaking career. Irving penn: centennial is essential for any fan of this artist’s work or the history of 20th-century photography. Used book in Good Condition. Lively essays acquaint readers with penn’s primary subjects and campaigns, Dahomey Benin, New Guinea, including early documentary scenes and imagery; portraits; fashion; female nudes; peoples of Peru, and Morocco; still lifes; and much more.

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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

Supplemented by a cache of extraordinary documents and letters from Wenner's personal archives, mercurial, Sticky Fingers depicts an ambitious, wide-eyed rock and roll fan of who exalts in youth and beauty and learns how to package it, marketing late sixties counterculture as a testament to the power of American youth.

. Metropolitan museum of art. Used book in Good Condition. The result is a fascinating and complex portrait of man and era, music, and an irresistible biography of popular culture, celebrity, and politics in America. Thompson, P. J. A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, Bono, Keith Richards, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, and others.

The story of jann wenner, and the pioneering era he helped curate, and publisher, Rolling Stone's founder, is told here for the first time in glittering, editor, glorious detail. Joe hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard stories about the lives of rock stars and their handlers; he details the daring journalism Tom Wolfe, Hunter S.

O’rourke and internecine office politics that accompanied the start-up; he animates the drug and sexual appetites of the era; and he reports on the politics of the last fifty years that were often chronicled in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine.


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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life

Published alongside a major touring exhibition, this collection presents Hujar’s famous portraiture as well as his lesser-known projects. Underappreciated during his lifetime, Hujar is now a revered icon of the lost downtown art scene, and his photographs are held in permanent collections around the world.

He is most well-known for his portraits of New York City’s artists, which feature characters such as Susan Sontag, musicians, writers, and performers, William S. Metropolitan museum of art. Used book in Good Condition. Over 160 photographs are gathered in Peter Hujar: Speed of Life. Aperture. Burroughs, and andy warhol, David Wojnarowicz, and was admired for his completely uncompromising attitude toward work and life.

Hujar was a consummate technician, and his portraits of people, and landscapes, animals, with its exquisite black-and-white tonalities, as well as his documentation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, were extremely influential. Peter hujar was a leading figure of the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and ’80s.

Accompanied by texts by philip gefter, Steve Turtell, and Joel Smith, this survey provides a thorough history of Hujar’s life and artistic practice.


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Calvin Klein

Divided by theme, with characteristic simplicity and sophistication, each of the three sections in this volume looks at one singular element of Klein’s approach. From founding the company in new york in 1968, he went on to change the face of fashion, bringing his visionary minimalism to the fore and defining looks for generations.

This unique book presents a stunning archive of images that reveal his timeless influence as a designer. Aperture. Metropolitan museum of art. In minimalist, we understand the simplicity, refinement, and elegance in every collection. And in the final section, we read in the designer’s own words the insights behind the campaigns and the secrets behind the successes.

Accompanied by private insights and behind-the-scenes stories that only he could tell, every image has been chosen by Calvin Klein to narrate his evolution as a designer—from couture to jeans, underwear, and fragrance—all categories in which he redefined what was chic and essential. As an icon of minimalism, and androgyny, modernism, Calvin Klein’s first book will find broad appeal with anyone interested in design, fashion, sexual provocation, or photography.

Few names in fashion are as recognizable as that of Calvin Klein. In it, are captured in images that would define their careers, the world’s most iconic models like Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, and remain indelible to the consumer. Used book in Good Condition.


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