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Philip Gefter is an American author and photography historian. [1] His books include Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; [2] What Becomes A Legend Most, the biography of Richard Avedon; [3] and Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, [4] the biography of Sam Wagstaff, for which ...
Jul 23, 2009 · Photographic icons, like Robert Capa’s picture of a falling soldier in the Spanish Civil War, are not always as straightforward as they seem, Philip Gefter says.
Oct 19, 2020 · His first fashion photograph appeared in Harper’s Bazaar in 1944, when he was 21, and he was still shooting for The New Yorker at the time of his death 60 years later.
Apr 4, 2006 · PHILIP GEFTER. Truth-telling is the promise of a photograph—as if fact itself resides in the optical precision with which the medium reflects our native perception. A photograph comes as close as we get to witnessing an authentic moment with our own eyes while not actually being there.
May 24, 2023 · Now, “Avedon 100,” an exhibition at Gagosian gallery in Chelsea marking the centenary of his birth, approaches his legacy — and his stagecraft — with a grab-bag randomness.
- Arthur Lubow
Dec 5, 2014 · Philip Gefter, a photography critic and former picture editor at The New York Times, wants us to see Wagstaff as a towering figure in the history of photography.
Nov 13, 2020 · What Becomes a Legend Most by the award-winning Gefter chronicles the fashion photographer’s fascinating career.
