Richard Avedon: Relationships

The coffee table book "Relationships" is a tribute to Richard Avedon (1923-2004), the American photographer whose name and photographs were associated with iconic magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and The New Yorker.

Avedon was a celebrated portraitist and one of the founders of fashion photography. He revolutionized the style when, as early as 1945, he stopped portraying models in static poses and preferred realistic settings. Avedon's images are almost cinematic, allowing the viewer to imagine the stories they seem to evoke.

Avedon's lens immortalized not only the most famous models of the time, but also a rich array of personalities, including actors, dancers, celebrities, artists, musicians, writers, civil rights activists and even heads of state. Not infrequently, the same subject was also portrayed multiple times and in different periods, creating true photographic relationships that revealed different aspects of both the person portrayed and their relationship with the photographer.

Created in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography and The Richard Avedon Foundation (with Versace as lead partner and Vogue Italia as media partner), Richard Avedon. Relationships features more than one hundred iconic fashion photographs and portraits from the Center's collection, including artists Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Ezra Pound, Truman Capote, John Ford, Michelangelo Antonioni, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Malcom X, Kofi Annan, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, not to mention models Dovima, Veruschka and Linda Evangelista.

In all of these extraordinary works, you can see the photographer's ability to capture facial expressions, body language and the moments, changes, styles and tensions that have characterized our society over the years. These qualities are even more evident in the black-and-white portraits for which Avedon became famous. Photographs of people who made history in the 20th century, from movie stars, musicians, politicians, photographic models to ordinary people.

Richard Avedon at the Kunsthal
Kunsthal Rotterdam presents a major survey of American photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004). The exhibition Relationships highlights both Avedon's pioneering contribution to fashion photography and his distinctive portrait photography in over one hundred and thirty photographs.

Specifications
Title: Richard Avedon: Relationships
Publisher: Skira
Size: 320 x 245 x 27 mm
Size: 220 pages
Weight: 1800 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9788857248400