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Nothing Personal: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the Pursuit of Celebrity
- ariel: A Review of International English Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 3-4, July-October 2017
- pp. 13-28
- 10.1353/ari.2017.0035
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Abstract:
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.