The photography of Richard Avedon, one of the most influential figures in the history of modern American visual culture, serves as a revelatory witness to the second half of the 20th century and includes a wealth of images that have become iconic. Like the exhibition it accompanied, the catalogue focuses on two bodies of work, which entered the Israel Museum’s collection in 2013: the photographic mural project that produced Allen Ginsberg’s family, Paterson, New Jersey, May 3, 1970 and the Rolling Stone portfolio of sixty-nine portraits entitled “The Family” from 1976. This publication from the Museum’s Focus series contains an evocative selection of images that take on new meaning in the context of Photography Curator Noam Gal’s thought-provoking essay on the links between representation, photography, and the politics of their uses.