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Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004

Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004

Avedon, Richard
Roth, Paul
Gopnik, Adam

Hardcover

General PhotographyPhotographers

Publisher Price: $79.95

ISBN10: 1837290350
ISBN13: 9781837290352
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: Oct 8 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 3.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 9.80 Depth: 11.30
Language: English
An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century's most influential photographers

'[Avedon's] portraits ... expose something more than skin deep; whole worlds are contained in these well-earned crags and crevices.' - The New York Times

For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the avalanche of age, dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.

Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Immortal is the first book to delve into Avedon's unflinching representation of aging throughout his career.

This elegant hardcover volume features nearly 100 portraits of cultural luminaries, each printed in striking tritone, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp, Duke Ellington, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, and Stephen Sondheim, as well as one of Avedon's last self-portraits. Texts by a star-studded cohort of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth, and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an under-represented element of Avedon's practice.

Thoughtfully edited and beautifully produced, Immortal testifies emphatically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.

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