Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

313 c   RICHARD AVEDON. A box set including Evidence 1944-1994 and An Autobiography , produced to accompany the 1994 Whitney Museum retrospective of the photographer’s works. The first illustrated with 284 photographs documenting Avedon’s noteworthy career spanning half a century; the second including essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, and illustrated lavishly with over 600 important representative images of this titan’s photographic oeuvre. Folios, red- and blue-stamped linen-covered boards; enclosed in a matching clamshell box with the debossed title. SPECIAL EDITION, THE BOXWITH AVEDON’S SIGNATURE AND THE EDITION NOTATION 73/250, IN INK, AND ISSUED WITH 2 IMAGES. Eastman Kodak/Random House, New York, 1994 WITH— Jasper Johns *   Jean Shrimpton. Offset lithographs, the images measuring 13 3 / 4 x10 1 / 2 inches (34.9x26.7 cm.), each with a Whitney Special Edition Engraver’s Proof hand stamp, on verso, and each housed in a paper folder with the title and negative date printed in the front f lap. 1965-70; printed 1993 [3,000/4,500] Although the limitation states 250 copies, only about 100 were actually produced.