Richard Avedon: The Harper's Bazaar Years

The first book to showcase Richard Avedon’s groundbreaking fashion photography from over two decades at Harper’s Bazaar

When twenty-one-year-old Richard Avedon worked his way into Harper’s Bazaar at the end of 1944, Carmel Snow had already spent more than two decades in top fashion publishing and had led Harper’s Bazaar as editor in chief for ten years.

First at Vogue (1921–32), and then at Harper’s Bazaar (1933–58), she discovered or recruited photographers Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Henri Ca...