Book research- Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon photographed the faces of politics throughout his career and this book brings together his political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media, and labor officials with photographs of countercultural activists, writers and artists, and ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it explores a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America’s best-known artists.

Here, once again its the simple, one photo on one page, one section of text on the next. which i like it is simple, and i think i will find it alot while looking at text and image in books.

  Similar to the other book i have looked at this also uses different sized images contrasted on a double spread. However here the allignment are central so the tops of the images are not matched together which is different. it also adds scale to the images in contrast to each other.

 Finally  this style is also abit different. it draws the image over onto the next page, making the image extend into the central partition and out onto the next page, which i have seen before in imagery but then it takes a specific kind of image to work really, as u will lose some of the image in the spine of the book.

Once again his layout is very simplistic in design, which i like and think is appropriate for my book.