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Opening July 5: See work featured in Christian Dior, Dream Couturier opening at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Opening August 11: Avedon's America, at Guild Hall, East Hampton
Opening November 3: See works featured in The Sweat on their Face: Portraying American Workers at National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

On Monday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated on “Fox and Friends” that public commemorative statues honoring slave owners, slavery or the confederacy should not be removed because “when you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it’s a bad thing.” . . Here is a photograph that Avedon took in 1963 of a statue known as “The Good Darky” in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Erected in 1927 by white citizens “in grateful recognition” of those slaves who had taken care of white families during the Civil War, the statue was removed from the town square in the late 1960s. . . With all due respect to former Secretary Rice, many such commemorative statues, including “The Good Darky,” were created to “honor” sanitized history in the first place. . . This image will be published in the new introduction to the Avedon/Baldwin book #NothingPersonal – with text by @hilton.als – in November 2017 . #richardavedon #condoleezzarice

Two ways to occupy a porch in 1963: . William Casby (seated right) on his porch in Algiers, Louisiana with four generations of his descendants. Mr. Casby was born a slave on a tobacco plantation in Danville, Virginia in 1857, and clearly recalled his emancipation at age 8. In an interview conducted the same day that Avedon made his portrait, Mr. Casby, then living under Jim Crow, expressed optimism for America’s future. . Meanwhile, in Arlington, Virginia, George Lincoln Rockwell (center), who founded the American Nazi Party in 1959, posed on the porch of his “Stormtrooper Barracks” with some of his followers. Though Rockwell was assassinated in 1967 by his former acolyte John Patler (seen here on the far right – pun intended), American Nazism unfortunately did not die with him. . Both of these images will be published in the new introduction to #NothingPersonal in November of 2017. Iterations are currently on display in the show "Avedon’s America" @guild_hall . #richardavedon #lovetrumpshate #williamcasby

Avedon's America @guild_hall on view starting today until October 9th #richardavedon #avedonsamerica #hamptons @guild_hall

The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Convention, Washington, D.C., October 15, 1963 #richardavedon #DAR #avedonsamerica @guild_hall

Robert Gonzalez, prisoner, Bexar County Jail, San Antonio, Texas, June 5, 1980 #richardavedon #intheamericanwest #robertgonzalez @guild_hall #avedonsamerica

Princess Donna Giada Ruspoli, October 5, 1966 . . #richardavedon #donnagiadaruspoli #princess #notAryaStark

James Baldwin and Richard Avedon in Finland in 1964 while working on their book "Nothing Personal." It will be republished this fall with a new introduction by @hilton.als. Today would have been Baldwin's 93rd birthday. #richardavedon #jamesbaldwin

Jeanne Moreau in 1962, 1970, and 1993 . #richardavedon #jeannemoreau

Montgomery Clift, actor, Montauk, June 14, 1958 . #richardavedon #montgomeryclift #montauk #hamptons