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Performance: Richard Avedon (Hardcover)

September 30, 2008

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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Henri Cartier-Bresson/Scrapbook (Hardcover)

August 13, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Colours Magazine’s RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In 1946 Cartier-Bresson travelled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook, glued each one in and brought that album to MoMA’s curators. Here, published for the first time in its entirety, is a [...]

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