6/22/2023 0 Comments The fire next time taschen![]() ![]() That project didn’t come together, but they always had a dream of collaborating. When they finished school, they planned to do a book called Harlem Doorways. Throughout high school, they were really good friends. Avedon was the editor in chief, and Baldwin contributed a bunch of stories and poems over the years. ![]() Avedon and Baldwin both worked at the literary magazine The Magpie. Hilton Als: Yes, they met at the prestigious DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. ![]() Here, Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker critic Hilton Als, who wrote the introduction to a special reissue of Nothing Personal(Taschen, $70), shares their backstory with Galerie contributing editor Antwaun Sargent.Īntwaun Sargent: Avedon and Baldwin knew each other before this book? That legendary partnership, the subject of the show “Richard Avedon: Nothing Personal” at New York’s Pace/MacGill Gallery through January 13, wasn’t the first time the duo worked together. It was a radical project, pairing Avedon’s photographs-such as a dazed Marilyn Monroe and a nude Allen Ginsberg-with sober and fiery texts by Baldwin. In 1964, two titans of American postwar culture, photographer Richard Avedon and writer James Baldwin, teamed up to produce the iconic book Nothing Personal. Photo: Richard Avedon, © The Richard Avedon Foundation A new edition of the book, published by Taschen. ![]()
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