{"product_id":"richard-avedon-immortal-portraits-of-aging-1951-2004","title":"Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century's most influential photographers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e '[Avedon's] portraits ... expose something more than skin deep; whole worlds are contained in these well-earned crags and crevices.' - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the \"avalanche of age,\" dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, \u003ci\u003eImmortal\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to delve into Avedon's unflinching representation of aging throughout his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis elegant hardcover volume features nearly 100 portraits of cultural luminaries, each printed in striking tritone, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp, Duke Ellington, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, and Stephen Sondheim, as well as one of Avedon's last self-portraits. Texts by a star-studded cohort of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth, and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an under-represented element of Avedon's practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtfully edited and beautifully produced, \u003ci\u003eImmortal\u003c\/i\u003e testifies emphatically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gaëlle Morel, Richard Avedon, Paul Roth, Adam Gopnik, Vince Aletti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47289014223084,"sku":"9781837290352","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781837290352.jpg?v=1770584625","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/richard-avedon-immortal-portraits-of-aging-1951-2004","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}