I wasn’t going to go. Richard Avedon images were everywhere when I was growing up. I assumed the show at the Musee in Montreal would be the rich and famous as that is what he is known for. And there they were. Though not only. And not, aside from the odd inclusion of Patti Smith in her youth, young. Portraits of Aging is, well, portraits of aging. Set off, it seems, by his own father. I’ve selected a handful of images here that spoke to me. Beckett, of course, Ezra Pound, Muriel Rukeyser, Auden, and Smith.
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