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 Richard Avedon’s “In the American West” By Max Kozloff “Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ” – Richard Avedon No one has smiled in an Avedon portrait for a long time. If there was pleasure in their lives it left them in the act of posing, or rather, confronting his lens….  Jacob Israel Avedon, Sarasota, Florida, May 15, 1971 By Richard Avedon, July 14, 1974, New York City A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he as a certain real power over the result. Lisette Model told me she felt these photog…  Reinterpreting Unconventional Family Photographs: Returning to Richard Billingham’s “Ray’s a Laugh” Series By Outi Remes,Afterimage May-June, 2007 The British artist Richard Billingham photographed his family–his alcoholic father, large mother, and unruly brother–in their council flat in the West Midlands, England, between 1990 and 1996, producing the photo book Ray’s a Laugh (1996). It departs from t…  …and complex of efforts – as easy as pushing a button and as difficult as recognizing the individual within the temporal slipstream of an open shutter. Vince Leo is a photographer and writer living in Minneapolis. BOOKS: Richard Avedon * In The American West (2005) * Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 (2007) * Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (2008) * Richard Avedon: Made in France (2002) * Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 (2009) ASX CHANNEL: R…  interview with richard kern by malga kubiak gothenburg at vigg studio 1990 camera man tjell zachrison, jean skarstedt, cooperation johannes moubies … ASX.TV: Richard Kern – “Malga Kubiak with Richard Kern” (1990)  …d-Ray and the devoted-enormous-”big”-Liz Billingham. Soon, little baby brother Jason would come along to join in the fun! Oh what wonderful places they will go! So starts the tale of Ray, Liz, Jason and lil’ Richard Billingham and their little journey through life in a little bitty box, in a tiny-poor corner of the world, called, Cradley Heath… unfortunately, things won’t quite turn out as planned. Richard Billingha…  By Maria Morris Hambourg and Mia Fineman Essay from the exhibition publication, Richard Avedon: Portraits (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2002) Richard Avedon is a man possessed. Passionate about theater, he may attend the same play week after week, seeking new insight, variant shades of characterization, and changes in his own perceptions. He haunts art cinemas, portrait galleries, and museums, and his thirst for literature, especially for Shake…  A Conversation with Richard Prince This interview is excerpted from a public conversation with Richard Prince, recorded at the Whitney Museum of American Art, May 13, 1992. BW: I want to ask you about the concept of permission. You have often said that you didn’t require “permission” to do things that in non-art contexts could be termed “illegal” or immoral” say, using copyrighted images without credit. You…  Pittsburgh, 2004 Interview with Richard Woodward, New York City, June 2007 RW: Let’s start with this new book, which is actually a series of books, and work backwards. How did the project originate? PG: Well, my principal source was from reading Chekhov’s Short Stories, and the critical essays around those. A lot of people have tried to understand why this writing works so well, since in the stories there’s not much happening. They’re dealing… | ||||||||||||||
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