Elizabeth Avedon
Book and exhibition designer; curatorial consultant
Education
Certificate, Parsons School of Design
Professional experience includes
Advertising, exhibition and book design, Richard Avedon Studio; director, photo-eye Gallery; creative director, Gere Foundation; art director, Geers, Gross, Kurtz & Tarlow/Polo Ralph Lauren National Advertising; photo editor, Ralph Lauren Magazine; regular contributor, L’Oeil de la Photographie
Exhibition design installations include
In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon; Avedon: 1949-1979 (fashion retrospective); Diana Vreeland: An Illustrated Biography; Elizabeth Avedon Editions / Vintage Contemporary Artist Series; An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life; Yesterday’s Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles; My Brother’s War: Photographs by Jessica Hines; Return to the Roof of the World: Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland
Exhibition design venues include
The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Art Institute of Chicago; Phoenix Art Museum; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Leica Gallery
Current and former clients include
Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin; PowerHouse Books; Howard Greenberg Gallery; The Gere Foundation; Film Society of Lincoln Center; Healing The Divide Foundation; Abrams; Little, Brown and Company; Clarkson Potter; Random House; Scala Books; Revlon; Estée Lauder; Bloomingdale’s; Bergdorf Goodman; Jones New York; Ralph Lauren Media; Estate of Diane Arbus
Publications include
Vivian Maier: Self Portraits; Vanity Fair; A Photo Editor; Wired; Lenscratch; Spot magazine
Awards and honors include
“140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014,” Time; Silver Medal, Internationale Buchkunst-Ausstellung, Leipzig; AIGA; Art Directors Club; Communication Arts; Print Annual