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Nothing Personal: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the Pursuit of Celebrity

2017; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/ari.2017.0035

1920-1222

Caryl Phillips,

Photography and Visual Culture

This article reflects on literary celebrity through an examination of James Baldwin's artistic career, especially his collaboration with American photographer Richard Avedon in a book entitled Nothing Personal. Baldwin's case is used to analyze a changing publishing world, which has been characterized for the last few years by a form of indifference toward writers of serious literature.