This is the tentative Table of Contents for the Assisting Avedon app as it now stands. More chapters may be added as I near completion:
- INTRODUCTION:
- About The Author
- Prologue (a summary of Avedon's life before I knew him, Brod, Bassman)
- ACT I:
- How It All Began (how I discovered his work and got to meet him)
- The Job Begins
- That First Year (the Madison Avenue studio)
- Avedon’s Earlier Style (how they evolved over time)
- The 49th Street Studio (the move to larger space)
- A Milestone Is Reached (I get some really choice assignments)
- Think Pink — The Making Of Funny Face (Hollywood makes a musical based on his life)
- Suzy (Avedon's favorite model)
- Our Personal Relationship
- INTERLUDE:
- Farewell, For Now (the studio as I leave for a compulsory stint in the army)
- Observations (Avedon's first book, with Truman Capote)
- ACT II:
- Return To Avedon (begins with his directing a TV spectacular)
- The 58th Street Studio (his best studio)
- In Cold Blood (Avedon works on Truman Capote's masterpiece)
- The Kennedy Portraits (the First Family just before JFK's inaguration)
- Photographing The First Astronauts
- Teaching Others (the Famous Photographers' School)
- Avedon’s First Major Exhibition (hanging a show at the Smithsonian)
- The Paris Collections (in paparazzi style!)
- Those Clairol Trips (hair coloring in the desert)
- Stormy Pink at a Seaside Ranch
- Defiling A Castle In Spain
- Nothing Personal (Avedon's controversial second book, with James Baldwin)
- That April Issue (all about the Sixties)
- Leaving Avedon
- EPILOGUE:
- The Avedon Paradox (a summary of his talent)
- Avedon’s Manhattan (a walking tour, with a map)
- Darkness and Light (the PBS TV documentary of Avedon's life)
- APPENDIX:
- On Being An Assistant Photographer (advice for would-be assistants)
- Avedon’s Other Studios (the other studios he used)
- Avedon’s Cameras
- Why 8x10?
- Painting With Light (lighting tricks for better photos)
- Those Fabulous B&W Prints
- Advertising Made It All Possible
- Fred Thomas and His Wondrous Toys (heights of photo technology)
- Cast of Characters (studio staff and more)
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