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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.
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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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Next week we will post a video, showing the book in all it’s glory to those who do not own, or have access to a copy (which is most of us!)
6 de nov. de 2017 · If Avedon’s 1959 book, “Observations” (with text by Truman Capote), was, by and large, about the certainty of the self and that self’s show-business finish or fake but felt truthfulness ...
- Hilton Als
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.
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.
Observations Photographs By Richard Avedon. Hardcover – January 1, 1959. Photographs by Richard Avedon with text by Truman Capote in French. Approx. 15 in. x 11 in. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
- Truman Capote
8 de abr. de 2011 · Viewing Observations from 2011, it’s hard to see how provocative it must have been to try to synthesize pop culture and high culture in a formal publication like a book, and in the way that Avedon and Alexey Brodovitch attempted here.
