{"id":158044,"date":"2025-11-02T01:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:57:17","slug":"richard-avedons-portraits-of-aging-are-collected-in-a-new-coffee-table-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158044\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Avedon&#8217;s Portraits of Aging Are Collected in a New Coffee-Table Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the renowned fashion-and-portrait photographer Richard Avedon had listed his relationship status with cameras on Facebook\u2014a platform launched just months before his death, in 2004\u2014he likely would have chosen \u201cIt\u2019s complicated.\u201d As he confessed in his book with Truman Capote, Observations (1959), \u201cI hate cameras. They interfere, they\u2019re always in the way. I wish: if I just could work with my eyes alone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given that Avedon went from a Kodak Brownie, which he used as a tween member of the Young Men\u2019s Hebrew Association Camera Club, to the Rolleiflex twin-lens he used to shoot his first assignment for Harper\u2019s Bazaar\u2019s Junior Bazaar (after finally landing a meeting with the magazine\u2019s art director, Alexey Brodovitch, on his 14th try), to the large-format, 8-by-10 view cameras he used for portraits, you\u2019d expect him to think of a camera as an extra limb. Not Avedon. He sought to capture something more than the subject in front of the lens.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-small\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/air-mail.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      Enter your e-mail to read the full story for free<br \/>and to receive our weekly e-mail newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Or, <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/subscribe\/promo-hlwn5025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>subscribe to AIR MAIL<\/strong><\/a> and get access to our entire archive. For a limited time, get<strong> 50% off your first year<\/strong> during our Halloween promotion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5 text-center text-md\" data-paywall-capture-target=\"intro\">\n    Or <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/hlwn5025?from=1ahjqP\" data-turbo=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe to AIR MAIL<\/a> for full access. 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