Avedon's France - Old World, New Look

Exploring Richard Avedon''s fascination with France, Avedon''s France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives); and substantive essays by the authors. In addition to five portfolios of French sitters spanning a lifetime of portraiture, it looks at Avedon''s apprenticeship to his mentor, Alexei Brodovitch; his encounters with French fashion; his idealised version of Paris in the movie Funny Face; his fresh take on the Belle Epoque in his book on Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diary of a Century; and his fruitful association with the magazine Egoiste later in his life. Avedon''s France offers a full account of Avedon''s restless pursuit of new ways of looking at the world, and it reveals a master image maker, a true artist for his time.