Posted on
2011-06-13
This exhibition focuses on Richard Avedon’s portraits of writers, first executed in between the 1950’s and the 1970’s
During a career that spanned nearly sixty years, Richard Avedon defined and expanded concepts of art and culture in twentieth century photography while producing an extended meditation on life, death, beauty, class, race, and identity. His reportage, portrait and commercial work dissolved the lines between photography’s many perceived genres, as it ranged across a breadth of subject matter including fashion, the American Civil Rights movement, war protestors, the fall of the Berlin wall, and portraits of the famous and the anonymous.
Opposite – William Burroughs, New York, July 9, 1975
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
4 rue de Ponthieu
75008
Paris
www.gagosian.com