Photographs 1947-1977 Random House, New York, & Eastman Kodak, Rochester, 1993

Photographs 1947-1977 Random House, New York, & Eastman Kodak, Rochester, 1993

LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Richard Avedon Made in France Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2001. First Edition. Limited edition of 100. Comes with silver gelatin print, as well as numbered, wooden slipcase. All items numbered 43 of 100. Folio. Spine is bound in cream cloth, with photographic boards as the covers. Print comes in separate envelope within the slipcase, and is carefully packed in vellum. Slipcase shows wear on corners. Book is in Fine condition. Book and Print SIGNED and numbered by Richard Avedon. Compiled from a large volume of images shot on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar in Paris, Made in France allows a rare insight “We seldom realize that our most private into the working methods of one of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers. Each print is presented at its original thoughts and emotions are not actually our size and on their original mounts with no cropping. Avedon’s own. For we think in terms of languages and notations and instructions, as well as the original assignment from Harper’s, are present for each photograph, clearly illustrating images which we did not invent, but which every aspect of Avedon’s process. The included print is of Suzy Parker and Gardner McKay at the Café des Beaux Arts, Paris were given to us by our society.” in August 1956, and can be found on page 34 of the book. A beautiful object as well as a fascinating work, Made in France is finely crafted through-and-through. Alan Wilson Watts 12500 LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Richard Avedon An Autobiography Richard Avedon Photographs 1947-1977 Random House, New York, & Eastman Kodak, Rochester, 1993. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1978. First Edition. Folio. First Edition, First Printing. Folio. Hardbound in brown cloth with Hardbound in pictorial paper covered boards with original acetate original acetate jacket, includes original printed shipping box. jacket. Exceptionally clean and bright copy; thoroughly Fine. SIGNED by Richard Avedon, dated in the year of publication. SIGNED by Richard Avedon. From a review in Publisher’s Weekly: “In this oversize assem- “In dreams and visions, we find a time which does not belong to blage of photographs, a loose record of faces, moments and the time of the world in which we will die: this is a silkier time: our events that have shaped his life, eminent photographer Avedon daydreaming minds invent a time for us untied to anything but excels in brutally frontal, stark black and white portraits that strip our life’s meanings, and the duration of such time has only to do away pretensions and personas. Ezra Pound, Marilyn Monroe, with stories we tell ourselves. The word dream is almost always Louis Armstrong, Rudolf Nureyev, Dorothy Parker, Janis Joplin, in our mouths a term of praise. The dress is a dream. The book is Andy Warhol, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm X and Alberto Giacom- a dream. It seems like a dream to experience this. Look: all your etti are among the luminaries indelibly captured. The juxtapo- dreams have come true.” -- Harold Brodkey sitions of images are often meant to provoke or unsettle. Poet Allen Ginsberg, in a nude embrace with his lover Peter Orlovsky, 950 shares facing pages with dour Henry Kissinger. There are inti- mate family snapshots, glimpses of the fashion world, documen- tary photos of the civil rights struggle. Faces of a Colorado meat packer, a Texas trucker, mental hospital patients, Vietnamese napalm victims and corpses in Sicilian catacombs jostle against shots of Isak Dinesen, Gerald Ford, debutantes and rock sing- ers, generating an implicit dialogue about power and powerless- ness, fame and illusion. A haunting portrait of our age. 1750 LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Richard Avedon Portraits Richard Avedon In The American West Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976. First Edition. Harry Abrams, New York, 1985. First Edition. Small Folio. Soft- Quarto. Hardbound with dust jacket. A bright, Fine copy, display- cover stiff illustrated wrappers. Very slight, scattered yellowing to ing only a bit of yellow on the spine. the front and rear covers. Very Near Fine. SIGNED TWICE by Richard Avedon. After incorrectly signing SIGNED by Richard Avedon in the year of publication. the book to “Jack Carlson,” Avedon crossed out both his signa- ture and the inscription, writing the correct “Jack Chapman” on Richard Avedon’s In the American West is widely regarded as a the verso. An extremely unique copy, made more personal not landmark project in photographic history and a definitive expres- only from the error, but by Avedon’s commitment to inscribing the sion of the power of photographic art. For In the American West, book correctly. Avedon traveled throughout five years, meeting and photograph- ing the plain people of the West: ranch workers, roustabouts, bar Portraits is one of the cleanest collections of Avedon’s portrait girls, drifters, and gamblers. The resulting book includes exqui- work, in its design, edit and sequencing. The selection focuses sitely printed black and white photographs, an essay by Avedon on artists, writers, and other luminaries in the arts from the late on his working methods and portrait philosophy, and a journal of 1950s to the 1970s. the project by Laura Wilson. 1500 650 LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Richard Avedon & Truman Capote Observations Chris Burden Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey Simon & Schuster, New York 1959. First Edition. Folio. Hard- Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1988. First bound with slipcase, with original acetate jacket. Slipcase shows Edition. Square Quarto. Softcover stiff illustrated wrappers. some cracking along the spine, and at the corners with rub marks on both faces. Book has very light rubbing on covers with slightly Published for the touring exhibition of the same name, A Twenty- worse rubbing at the corners near the spine. Acetate jacket has \ Year Survey presents - with Chris Burden’s trademark almost cracks on front cover and spine, but is not wrinkled or hazy. Inte- scientific deadpan detachment - a complete overview of all per- rior of book is blemish free. formances, sculpture, and other works completed across a twen- ty-year span. Of greatest interest are the photographs of Bur- “Observations is the culmination of a creative collaboration be- den’s performances, which present with vivid clarity the tension tween Richard Avedon and Alexey Brodovitch that began in 1945, crated by Burden’s sculptural use of space for his performances when the imperial art director hired the 22-year-old photographer, in museums and the drama of his more physically demanding fresh out of Brodovitch’s famously demanding Design Labora- pieces that is all too often lost in mere text. A fascinating over- tory seminars at the New School for Social Research…Though view of a truly daring and thought-provoking artist. it didn’t take long for Avedon’s fame to eclipse Brodovitch’s leg- end, their reputations are inextricably linked. Brodovitch resigned 295 from the magazine in 1958, but Bazaar’s graphic design, became the template for Observations a year later. Avedon’s first book is Brodovitch’s summing up. Vince Aletti, The Book of 101 Books, pg. 148-9 950 Chris Burden Chris Burden 71-73 Chris Burden B-Car Self Published, Los Angeles, 1974. Quarto. First Edition. Shows Choke Publications, Los Angeles, 1977. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated edge wear on all edges, most prominently on the spine. Light in black and white with illustrated wrappers. Staple bound. First rubbing to front and rear covers. Interior of book is bright and Edition. Fine. clean. Almost Near Fine. Between August 24 and October 16, 1975, Burden conceived, A two book set designed and published by Chris Burden docu- designed, and constructed a small one-passenger automobile, menting through photographs and the artist’s own words his per- documenting the entire process with photographs and extensive formance work between the years 1971-71 and 1974-77. Pro- journaling. The goal was to design a fully operational four-wheel vides a rare insight into the performances of Chris Burden, which vehicle, which would travel 100 miles per hour and achieve 100 would otherwise remain unseen, available only as legends and miles per gallon. Burden wanted the car to be ready in time for vague suggestions in texts. two shows in Amsterdam and Paris, driving the car between them as a performance. Describing its construction as “the most 1250 elaborate fantasy of my life,” Burden exhibited the car with his designs and diagrams, presenting a total document of the cars creation. With selected drawings and photographs from the show along with text by Burden, B-Car tells the story of one artist and car aficionado’s foray into automotive design, clearly illustrating “a vision—my fantasy as an artist of what a car should be.” 750 LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Jean-Michel Basquiat Paintings Peter Beard The End of the Game Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, 1985.

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