New Vogue Beauty Salon

Steve Banks

Essay by Steve Banks

36 Pages  
Duotone Offset 
9” x 12” 
Edition of 300 
ISBN: 978-0-9998298-3-7

"In February 1967 I won a spot in Richard Avedon and Marvin Israel’s eight week photography master class. These meetings took place at Avedon’s  New York Upper East Side studio.

Everyone, including invited guests (photographers Diane Arbus, Hiro, Lee Friedlander), would gather around two sheets of plywood set up on sawhorses and critique each week’s assignments.

I had decided to photograph beauty parlors..."

—Excerpt from opening  by Steve Banks