Richard Avedon: Immortal - Portraits of Aging 1951-2004
The coffee table book "Richard Avedon: Immortal - Portraits of Aging 1951-2004" is a fearless exploration of aging by one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century.
The coffee table book "Richard Avedon: Immortal - Portraits of Aging 1951-2004" is a fearless exploration of aging by one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Carefully curated and beautifully designed, the photography book is an impressive testament to the determination with which people face inevitable death.
For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to reflect aging in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue into the twenty-first century, Avedon systematically and boldly broke with the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to emphasize the onslaught of what he called the "avalanche of age," dramatizing the universal experience of aging.
This elegant hardcover book includes 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 group of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an underexposed aspect of Avedon's work.
Specifications
Title: Richard Avedon: Immortal - Portraits of Aging 1951-2004
Authors: Adam Gopnik, Vince Aletti, Gaëlle Morel
Publisher: Phaidon
Size: 280 × 240 x 50 mm
Size: 208 pages
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781837290352
Release: October 1, 2025
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