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Alice In Wonderland: The Forming of a Company and the Making of a Play
New Merlin House, 1973. Photo-illustrated wrappers. A crisp, very close to fine copy.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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Richard Avedon
153 books46 followersPeople note fashion photography and stark portraits of Richard Avedon, an American.
Richard Avedon captured ideals of celebrity and beauty in the 20th and early 21st centuries to helped to establish a contemporary art form. Avedon developed a distinct, iconic style. While his contemporaries focused on single moments or composed formal images, his lighting and minimalist white backdrops drew the viewer to the intimate, emotive power of the expression of the subject.
Richard Avedon studied philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and served in the department of the merchant marines of the United States before studying with Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research.
From 1945, he worked and revolutionized the craft even as he honed his aesthetic to 1965. He worked in magazines from Harper's Bazaar and Vogue to Life and Look. Later, he moved into journalism and the art world. His subjects included pop stars, models, musicians, writers, artists, workers, political activists, soldiers, victims of Vietnam War, politicians, and his family.
Curator Paul Roth observes: “In an Avedon portrait, the face maps an intersection: It is a place where the world outside the photograph meets the world inside the mind.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presented solo exhibitions in 1978 and 2002. The Whitney Museum of Art in New York in 1994 mounted major retrospective. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark, mounted his works in 2007, and the exhibit traveled to Milan, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and San Francisco through 2009.
Richard Avedon captured ideals of celebrity and beauty in the 20th and early 21st centuries to helped to establish a contemporary art form. Avedon developed a distinct, iconic style. While his contemporaries focused on single moments or composed formal images, his lighting and minimalist white backdrops drew the viewer to the intimate, emotive power of the expression of the subject.
Richard Avedon studied philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and served in the department of the merchant marines of the United States before studying with Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research.
From 1945, he worked and revolutionized the craft even as he honed his aesthetic to 1965. He worked in magazines from Harper's Bazaar and Vogue to Life and Look. Later, he moved into journalism and the art world. His subjects included pop stars, models, musicians, writers, artists, workers, political activists, soldiers, victims of Vietnam War, politicians, and his family.
Curator Paul Roth observes: “In an Avedon portrait, the face maps an intersection: It is a place where the world outside the photograph meets the world inside the mind.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presented solo exhibitions in 1978 and 2002. The Whitney Museum of Art in New York in 1994 mounted major retrospective. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark, mounted his works in 2007, and the exhibit traveled to Milan, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and San Francisco through 2009.
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February 12, 2015
On a Sunday morning a long time ago I awoke half drunk on a ripped up couch as my host turned on the TV and I witnessed a miraculous record of Andre Gregory's production of Alice in wonderland. It was part physical theatre and part transformation play. It was the only example I ever seen of those techniques being used by a collective. It was really awesome
Andre Gregory fame now e
Costs only in his appearance in My Dinner With Andre. Heis credited with a dozen or so theatrical productions here and in Europe all done for limited runs and invited audiences. Why that is so I cannot guess. How he fed himself is equally up in the air.
This book of photos of the Alice production is a striking record by Richard Avedon. They speak of the acting, action, directing and production values of this performance. The photos speak in the razor sharp focus, frozen action, the limited color pallet of Avedon. Most of avedon's work is portrait work where the subjects are still. Here they move even though frozen in the photos.
Can anyon tell me where I can get a copy of the TV production?
Andre Gregory fame now e
Costs only in his appearance in My Dinner With Andre. Heis credited with a dozen or so theatrical productions here and in Europe all done for limited runs and invited audiences. Why that is so I cannot guess. How he fed himself is equally up in the air.
This book of photos of the Alice production is a striking record by Richard Avedon. They speak of the acting, action, directing and production values of this performance. The photos speak in the razor sharp focus, frozen action, the limited color pallet of Avedon. Most of avedon's work is portrait work where the subjects are still. Here they move even though frozen in the photos.
Can anyon tell me where I can get a copy of the TV production?
April 12, 2016
Andre Gregory (seen in the short film My Dinner with Andre) put together and directed an improvisational theater company in New York in the 1970's and Richard Avedon photographed its development of the play.. You'll recognize Wallace Shawn in the cast, who was also in the movie My Dinner with Andre (and played Vizzini in The Princess Bride). The shots of the play are full of exuberant motion and weirdness.
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