Richard Avedon: The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family

Hardcover; Near Fine; Dust Jacket - Very Good; Near fine, stated first edition/printing, black cloth over boards w white & yellow font on spine. 126 pps, with as many or more photos. Forward Robert Dallek. Unmarked, clean and tight copy.Minor corner and spine end bumps. Dust jacket unclipped, closed tears at spine ends and edges, shelf wear scrapes noted on back cover, now under mylar wraps. "Summary: In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy's presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazine's February 1961 issue. That same day, Avedon created more informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach. One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazine's February 28 issue, with photographs by Avedon inside. Just before the magazine hit the newsstands and was delivered to over 6.5 million people, a set of photographs, comprised mostly of the LOOK images, was released by the White House and appeared in newspapers across the country. During his lifetime, Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harper's Bazaar. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than seventy-five images from that donation." Oversized - with regrets can not accept international shipment.