An album of photographs taken from the Vogue archive, this is a collection of work by the century's finest photographers: Edward Streichen was the magazine's chief photographer for 15 years; Irving Penn has been associated with "Vogue" since 1943, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton and Bruce Weber all found a place there. Richard Avedon created some of ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded by visionary patron and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), is home to one of the finest collections of American art in the country. "Frames of Reference" features eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary culture who together provide a wide-ranging ...
Thirteen essays that first appeared in "Vogue" and "The New Yorker" concerned with women in art and literature and their search for authentic self-expression. Along with pieces on such figures as Nina Berberova, Virginia Woolf, and Flaubert's mistress, Louise Colet, Fraser intersperses vignettes from her own life about her garden, her sister, and ...
Fraser brings to the 14 essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that makes her reportage for "The New York Times" so legendary. "Wonderfully idiosyncratic".--"Newsday".
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