978-1419733383

978-1419733383

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

978-1419733383 is the ISBN of Avedon Advertising (Abrams, 2019), a survey of Richard Avedon's commercial photography; in Chiaroscuro, the series I began in January 2026, a book gives its ISBN as the title. The image comes from one of its campaigns: Calvin Klein Jeans with Brooke Shields, photographed and directed by Avedon in 1980. Of that picture I kept only a pair of legs in jeans and boots, kicked up, in black on grey. The number identifies a whole book; the painting takes one fragment of one advertisement inside it.

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