RICHARD AVEDON (BORN 1923)

Dovima and the Elephants, Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris

细节

RICHARD AVEDON (BORN 1923)
Dovima and the Elephants, Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris
Gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on linen. 1955/1979. Signed and numbered 1/50 in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount.
51 x 40½in. (129.5 x 102.7cm.) In the artist's original frame.

来源

From the artist;
to the present owner.

出版

See: Livingston/Whitney Museum of American Art, Richard Avedon: Evidence, p. 53.

拍场告示

Please note that this photograph was printed in 1979 and not 1995, as stated in the catalogue.

拍品专文

Richard Avedon is renowned for his unconventional approach to fashion and portrait photography. His celebrated work, Dovima and the Elephants, 1955, belongs to a series of photographs, here one of an oversize edition, begun by Avedon in Paris in the 1940s, of staging shots in settings, both mundane and theatrical, in which his models became actors, rather than simple mannequins. The resulting "cinematic" quality owes much to Avedon's interest in the work of filmmaker, Ernst Lubitsch.