Richard Avedon & James Baldwin — NOTHING PERSONAL — Taschen 2017 — 2-Volume Set

by Richard Avedon, James Baldwin

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A beautiful 2017 Taschen edition of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin's landmark 1964 collaboration, Nothing Personal. This Taschen edition includes two volumes: Volume 1 — Nothing Personal A meticulous reprint of the original 1964 Avedon/Baldwin book, produced in collaboration with the Richard Avedon Foundation. Volume 2 — The Way We Live Now A 72-page companion volume featuring previously unpublished Avedon photographs and outtakes, contact sheets, correspondence, preliminary layouts, ephemera, and an essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als about the making of Nothing Personal and the relationship between Avedon and Baldwin. The two volumes were issued together in the publisher's original slipcase. This is an important photography book and a significant collaboration between two major American cultural figures. It is particularly appealing to collectors of Richard Avedon, James Baldwin, photography, African American history, civil rights history, and 20th-century American culture.

• Publisher: Taschen
• Year: 2017
• Condition: Good

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