{"product_id":"the-kennedys-portrait-of-a-family-9780061138164","title":"The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1960s  Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harpers Bazaar to create Observations  a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family  who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedys presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazines February 1961 issue. That same day  Avedon created more informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach. One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazines February 28 issue  with photographs by Avedon inside. Just before the magazine hit the newsstands and was delivered to over 6.5 million people  a set of photographs  comprised mostly of the LOOK images  was released by the White House and appeared in newspapers across the country. During his lifetime  Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution  including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harpers Bazaar. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than seventy-five images from that donation for The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family  making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time. Perichs introductory essayaccompanied by a wealth of archival photographs of both Avedon and the Kennedy familyprovides historical background on the two sittings within a political and cultural context and critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century. A foreword by Robert Dallek  distinguished historian and author of the bet-selling An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy  1917-1963  provides authoritative and compelling insight to one of the most fascinating presidents in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648108814389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0061138169","price":21.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780061138164.jpg?v=1781709660","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-kennedys-portrait-of-a-family-9780061138164","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}