This is the tentative Table of Contents for Assisting Avedon as it now stands. More chapters may be added as I near completion:
- Title
- Copyright (and acknowledgements)
- Contents
- Foreword (by someone else who knew Avedon)
- Introduction
- PROLOGUE: (a summary of Avedon's life before I knew him, Brod, Bassman)
- PART 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 Styles (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)
- PART II:
- Return To Avedon (begins with his directing a TV spectacular)
- The 58th Street 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)
- A History Lesson for Johnny (I take Avedon and his young son on a history tour)
- Avedon’s First Major Exhibition (hanging a show at the Smithsonian)
- Covering 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
- Fred Thomas and his Wondrous Toys (the heights of photographic technology)
- The Saga Of The Color-Automat (a breakthrough in color film processing)
- 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)
- Those Fabulous B&W Prints (darkroom secrets revealed)
- Darkness and Light (the PBS TV documentary of Avedon's life)
- What It Means To Me Today
- APPENDIX:
- On Being An Assistant Photographer (advice for would-be assistants)
- Avedon’s Other Studios (the other studios he used)
- Avedon’s Cameras
- Painting With Light (lighting tricks for better photos)
- Avedon’s Books & Exhibitions
- Lists! Lists! Lists! (who he photographed, for whom, where, when, who worked for him, and much else that can be listed)
- INDEX: (making everything easy to find)
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