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Philip Gefter is an American author and photography historian. His books include Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ; [2] What Becomes A Legend Most, the biography of Richard Avedon ; [3] and Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe , [4] the biography of Sam Wagstaff ...
He was an editor at The New York Times for over fifteen years and wrote about photography for the paper. He was the photography critic for the Daily Beast in its early years and contributes frequently to The New Yorker: Photobooth and Aperture, the quarterly of photography.
16 de oct. de 2020 · Toward the beginning of “What Becomes a Legend Most,” Philip Gefter sets a scene. A 17-year-old Dicky Avedon, awkward and insecure but with “a would-be poet’s impulse” to look for magic ...
Philip Gefter’s biography, “What Becomes a Legend Most,” follows the career of one of the 20th century’s most successful photographers. By Caroline Weber Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions
19 de oct. de 2020 · Philip Gefter’s new biography, “What Becomes a Legend Most,” argues for Avedon’s place as one of the 20th century’s most consequential artists. Skip to content Skip to site index.
27 de oct. de 2020 · Philip Gefter is the author of two previous books: Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, which received the 2014 Marfield Prize and was a finalist for both the Publishing Triangle’s Shilts-Grahn Nonfiction Award and a Lambda Literary Award for Best Biography/Memoir; and a collection of essays, Photography After Frank.
22 de feb. de 2021 · His first cover shoot for Bazaar was the fashion magazine’s January 1947 issue, introducing, according to Gefter, “what will long become identified as the Avedon woman–slender, androgynous, natural and spontaneous, spirited, unselfconscious, a bit kooky and utterly self-assured.”. In creating this idea of a stylish postwar female figure ...
