
Jacob Israel Avedon and Richard Avedon, Sarasota, Florida, August 9, 1969
An intimate family portrait featuring Richard Avedon with his son Jacob Israel Avedon in Sarasota, Florida, printed decades after the original photograph was taken in 1969.
- Medium
- Unique gelatin silver print, printed 2002.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
October 7, 2021
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Sally Mann
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Sally Mann creates deeply personal black and white gelatin silver portraits of her own family members, capturing intimate and emotionally raw moments with the same documentary authenticity and familial closeness seen in this Avedon piece.

Emmet Gowin
American · b. 1941

Gowin is renowned for his tender and introspective black and white family photographs, particularly of his wife and relatives, sharing the same personal documentary quality and intimate psychological depth present in this portrait of Avedon with his son.

Nicholas Nixon
American · b. 1947

Nixon is celebrated for his long term black and white portrait series documenting family relationships over time, using the same gelatin silver print tradition and intimate observational approach that defines this deeply personal Avedon family photograph.
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