Richard Avedon: The Kennedys
Portrait of a Family
Unpublished Photographs from the Smithsonian Collection
Shannon Thomas Perich
Foreword by Robert Dallek
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| ‘Throws fresh light on the private lives of these glamorous icons in the age of Camelot … unique’ | | – Saga Magazine |
In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar to create nine photographic essays. The subject of the first of these was future president John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy’s inauguration.
Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sittings. Images have been culled from that donation for The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family, making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time.
The introductory essay – accompanied by a wealth of archival photography of both Avedon and the Kennedy family – provides historical background on the two sittings and critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century. A foreword by Robert Dallek, distinguished historian and author of the bestselling An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, provides authoritative and compelling insight to one of the most fascinating presidents in American history.
Richard Avedon chronicled the latter half of the twentieth century with powerful portraits of artists, intellectuals, political figures and events of the time. In a career spanning six decades, he turned fashion photography into an art form and reinvented the genre of photographic portraiture.
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500543518 | | ISBN-13 978-0500543511 | | | | 29.2 x 25.4 cm | | Hardback | | 128pp | | With 295 illustrations in colour and black and white | | First published 2007 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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