Whitney Houston - Rare Avedon Coffee Table Book Inscribed & Signed To Whitney For Sale

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper that says:

“For Whitney

Yours in the struggle

Richard Avedon”

Whitney Houston - A copy personalized specifically with an autograph to "Whitney" is a unique, one-of-a-kind association/presentation copy.

Whitney Houston - 1st edition rare Richard Avedon coffee table book (with his photos from 1947 - 1977) personally autographed by Avedon to Whitney E. Houston. Received by Whitney herself. Purchased from Herritage sale held by Whitney E. Houston Estate. Certificate of Authenticity is accompanied.

The coffee table book is Avedon: Photographs 1947–1977, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1978 to accompany his major retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Format: Oversized hardcover with a printed clear acetate dust jacket

Content: Features 162 iconic black-and-white portraits and fashion photographs spanning his career up to that point.

Photographs: 1947-1977

“Avedon gravitates to those moments in which the oscillation between pretense and revelation is most intense... Each photograph is a confession—by him, by the sitter, by the process of photography: and the conspiracy of confession has here a gaiety—and often a ribald or impassioned or implicated sarcasm—a sexuality, a wryness, a madness, a madness of love and excitement—that is purposefully movement, moving, a dance and a confession—a defiance: a form of meaning.” –Harold Brodkey

Illustrated with 162 full-page photographs by Avedon of Lauren Bacall, Joan Baez, Brigitte Bardot, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, Lena Horne, Anjelica Huston, Janis Joplin, Sophia Loren, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe, Paloma and Claude Picasso, Yves Saint Laurent, Elizabeth Taylor, Tina Turner, Twiggy, Gloria Vanderbilt, and many others. With introduction by Harold Brodkey.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Folio, original photographic boards, original acetate dust jacket. A fine copy.

“Each photograph is a confession—by [Avedon], by the sitter, by the process of photography: and the conspiracy of confession has here a gaiety—and often a ribald or impassioned or implicated sarcasm—a sexuality, a wryness, a madness, a madness of love and excitement.”