Now at the PEM, if you're in the Boston (Salem) area...
http://www.pem.org/press/press_relea...f_power_at_pem
This caught my eye in the press release:
"In Portrait of a Family, the combination of individual prints with enlarged contact sheets made for exhibition enables visitors to experience firsthand the decisions Avedon made in preparing his pictures for Harper's Bazaar. Together they reveal the decisions Avedon made when editing his pictures, showing the frames the artist decided to use and the ones he set aside, as well as the cropping, retouching, and other alterations that went into finalizing the images. Each choice was very consciously made to project a particular mood, meaning, or manner of being."
I think it would be interesting to see how quickly one can get past the too-well-remembered subjects and see what there is to learn from looking at the collection.
And the PEM is so cool, no matter what's going on.
Anyway, there you are....
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