First edition of The Sixties by Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus (1999).

First impression

Large format hard cover in fine condition.

Some very minor wear to extremities of boards

Small markings on the back of the dust jacket

Pages clean, binding firm

About

More than 150 duotone and color photographs capture the dramatic changes and crises of the 1960s, in a visual history that chronicles the civil rights movement, women's rights, gay rights, antiwar demonstrations, and other key events and players. 50,000 first printing.

RICHARD AVEDON (b. 1923) was the editor, with his classmate James Baldwin, of The Magpie, the literary magazine at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx.  In 1942 he joined the photography department of the U.S. merchant marine.  He was a staff photographer at I>Harper's Bazaar (1951-1965) and Vogue (1966-1988), and he collaborated with James Baldwin on Nothing Personal (1964), a book about the civil rights movement.  In 1992 he became the first staff photographer at The New Yorker.

DOON ARBUS (b. 1945) is the author of Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play, and has written for a number of magazines, including Rolling Stone and The Nation.  Her thirty-year collaboration with Richard Avedon began with the project that has become this book.  She is completing her Unfinished Novel.