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Observations is a collaborative coffee table book with photography by Richard Avedon, commentary by Truman Capote and design by Alexey Brodovitch. It features a slipcase with color, all-capitalized lettering; the book itself is further housed in a clear acetate / glassine slip cover and is printed with the same bold design as the ...
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Like Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans,’ which we discussed last month in the Photo Book Club, American photographer Richard Avedon’s first book, ‘Observations,’ was published in 1959. And, like ‘The Americans’ it was included in Andrew Roth’s ‘The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century (PPP Editions, 2001), now itself a semi...
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Edition: First edition. This early book on Richard Avedon presents the photographer’s striking portraits from the 1940s and ’50s of luminaries as well as a profile of Avedon by Truman Capote and literary sketches of the portrait subjects by the novelist.
Product details. ASIN : B000WF1W7S. Publisher : Simon & Schuster; First Edition (January 1, 1959) Language : English. Best Sellers Rank: #6,506,946 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books) Customer Reviews: 5.0 2 ratings. Videos. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Upload your video. Important information.
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8 de abr. de 2011 · Erik Palmer on Avedon’s ‘Observations’. By admin. 8th April 2011. No Comments. Erik Palmer, creative director of Vico Collective and teacher of communication theory at Portland State, offered this great comment to Wayne Ford’s synopsis yesterday that we thought was deserving of it’s own post.
The Collection. Photographs. Truman Capote, Writer, New York City. Richard Avedon American. October 10, 1955, printed 1974–75. Not on view. Longtime friends and collaborators Richard Avedon and Truman Capote first worked together in 1959, when Capote wrote the text for Avedon’s book of portrait photographs, Observations.
21 de sept. de 2015 · 4.38. 13 ratings3 reviews. Observations, with photographs by Richard Avedon, texts by Truman Capote, and graphic design by Alexey Brodovitch, was the height of sophisticated elegance when published in 1959. And it is without a doubt among the most influential photographic books of the twen- tieth century.
