Sunday, February 15, 2015

"Richard Avedon: People" (Potter Museum)

Black and whites of a roll call of luminaries, with an emphasis on New York and the 60s - Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Truman Capote, a young Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Dorothy Parker (very large and rawly exposed), Bob Dylan ('65), J Robert Oppenheimer, Pablo Picasso, Twiggy, Rudolph Nureyev, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol. More contemporarily, Michaelangelo Antonioni (with wife - one of the best), Merce Cunningham, Harold Bloom, Bjork, Kate Moss. Also, three lovely blurred shots of Santa Monica Beach, 1963.