What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon Gefter Philip
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon Gefter Philip "Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesNow in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a…
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What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon Gefter Philip
"Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesNow in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon captured the iconic figures of the twentieth century in his starkly bold, intimately minimal, and forensic visual style. Yet despite his driving ambition to gain respect in the art world, during his lifetime he was condescendingly dismissed as a "celebrity photographer."What Becomes a Legend Most is the first definitive biography of this luminary--an intensely driven Concurrently, his work for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue transformed the ideals of women's fashion, femininity, and culture to become the defining look of an era.