The Sixties

Avedon, Richard; Doon Arbus (Text)

ISBN 10: 0679409238 / ISBN 13: 9780679409236

Published by Random House, New York, 1999

About this Item

235pp. Folio [33cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Spine ends bumped and boards very lightly soiled. Lacking the dust jacket, though the detached flaps are laid in. Striking photography of sixties icons from music, film, politics, literature and pop culture taken by Richard Avedon. Avedon and writer Doon Arbust began collaborating on this book 30 years prior to its publication.

Seller Inventory # 68633

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sixties
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679409238
• ISBN 13: 9780679409236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Sixties

About this title

Synopsis

More than 150 duotone and color photographs capture the dramatic changes and crises of the 1960s, in a visual history that chronicles the civil rights movement, women's rights, gay rights, antiwar demonstrations, and other key events and players. 50,000 first printing.

About the Authors

RICHARD AVEDON (b. 1923) was the editor, with his classmate James Baldwin, of The Magpie, the literary magazine at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx.  In 1942 he joined the photography department of the U.S. merchant marine.  He was a staff photographer at I>Harper's Bazaar (1951-1965) and Vogue (1966-1988), and he collaborated with James Baldwin on Nothing Personal (1964), a book about the civil rights movement.  In 1992 he became the first staff photographer at The New Yorker.

DOON ARBUS (b. 1945) is the author of Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play, and has written for a number of magazines, including Rolling Stone and The Nation.  Her thirty-year collaboration with Richard Avedon began with the project that has become this book.  She is completing her Unfinished Novel.

Richard Avedon was a staff photographer at Harper's Bazaar (1951-1965) and Vogue (1966-1988). In 1992 he became the first staff photographer at The New Yorker.