The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family - Couverture rigide

Avedon, Richard; Perich, Shannon Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061138169 ISBN 13 : 9780061138164

Editeur : Harper Design, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Avedon Richard Perich Shannon Thomas

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy's presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazine's February 1961 issue.

That same day, Avedon created more informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach. One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazine's February 28 issue, with photographs by Avedon inside. Just before the magazine hit the newsstands and was delivered to over 6.5 million people, a set of photographs, comprised mostly of the LOOK images, was released by the White House and appeared in newspapers across the country.

During his lifetime, Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harper's Bazaar. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than seventy-five images from that donation for The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family, making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time. Perich's introductory essay—accompanied by a wealth of archival photographs of both Avedon and the Kennedy family—provides historical background on the two sittings within a political and cultural context and critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century. A foreword by Robert Dallek, distinguished historian and author of the bet-selling An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, provides authoritative and compelling insight to one of the most fascinating presidents in American history.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Richard Avedon chronicled the latter half of the twentieth century with powerful portraits of artists, intellectuals, political figures, and events of the time. In a career spanning six decades, he turned fashion photography into an art form and reinvented the genre of photographic portraiture. His work is a vital part of the canon of the history of photography, and his donations of his work to the Smithsonian Institution have created a significant legacy of some of his most important images, including those in this book.

Shannon Thomas Perich is an associate curator in the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where she has worked for more than ten years. She holds a master's degree in museum studies from George Washington University as well as a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Arizona.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Design
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061138169
• ISBN 13: 9780061138164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128