A short review about Performance, Rirchard Avedon’s photobook. “Performance” sizzles with the electric charge that passes between a great photographer and an incandescent artist when they share a purpose and a passion. The photographer Richard Avedon had, in his own words, ‘a passion for high-definition performance and a faith in the religion of perpetual acceleration’. Or, as critic John Lahr says of Avedon, ‘He was ravished by the articulate energy of great performers’.
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