978-1419733383

978-1419733383

2026
Acrylic, charcoal pencil and pastel pencil on cotton canvas with gummed kraft tape
38 x 46 x 2 cm
RT4A-2605-0130
Private collection

978-1-4197-3338-3 is the ISBN of Avedon Advertising (Abrams, 2019), a survey of Richard Avedon’s commercial photography. The image comes from one of its campaigns: Calvin Klein Jeans with Brooke Shields, photographed and directed by Avedon in 1980. I keep only the legs in jeans and boots, kicked up, in black on grey. The title identifies the book; the painting isolates a fragment of an advertisement inside it.