OBSERVATIONS Richard Avedon 1959 Truman Capote SIGNED

Observations. Photographs by Richard Avedon, comments by Truman Capote. Simon & Schuster, New York 1959. First Edition. Hard bound in slipcase. Condition is fair. The slipcase has some chips along the edges, a water stain on the back, and a split in the spine. The book is in good condition overall with some light chipping along the exposed edge. SIGNED by Richard Avedon in 1997.

As noted in Andrew Roth’s The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century (itself a seminal work on the history of the photographic book):

"Having begun to take photographs during the Second World War, where he served in the Merchant Marine, Avedon became chief photographer of 'Harper’s Bazaar' in the late 1940s, where he helped redefine and elevate fashion photography to an art form, frequently taking his models out of the studio.

But Avedon’s first book did not focus on his fashion work, but on his iconic and penetrating portraits. In the 150 pages that form Observations, with comments by the great American writer Truman Capote, we encounter the likes of Charlie Chaplin, John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arthur Miller, Pablo Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Judy Garland, Igor Stravinsky, Katherine Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Buster Keaton, and many others."

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