Richard Avedon Immortal

Hardback

Portraits of Aging, 1951 2004

For more than half a century, American portraitist and fashion photographer Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name, Immortal explores how the photographer dramatized the universal experience of getting older.

This elegant volume features nearly 100 portraits printed in striking tritone, of such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, Jean Renoir, Patti Smith, and Ronald Reagan. Edited by Paul Roth and with an introduction by Adam Gopnik, both exhibition and catalogue testify unflinchingly and empathetically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.