A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life In Fashion, Art, and Letters by Penelope Rowlands - 2008-11-12

New York: Atria Books, 2005. Paperback. VG, clean, bright, tight with unbroken spine. Barely read but with faint shelf wear.. Glossy white wraps with bw line drawing and lavender lettering. XIV, 562 pp. with occasional bw photos. Carmel Snow, who changed the course of our culture by launching the careers of some of today's greatest figures in fashion and the arts, was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century. As editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 she championed the concept of "a well-dressed magazine for the well-dressed mind," bringing cutting-edge art, fiction, photography, and reportage into the American home. Now comes A Dash of Daring, a first and definitive biography of this larger-than-life figure in publishing, art, and letters. Veteran magazine journalist Penelope Rowlands describes the remarkable places Snow frequented and the people whose lives she transformed, among them Richard Avedon, Diana Vreeland, Geoffrey Beene, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cristobal… Read More

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Atria Books, 2008. Paperback. New. 576 pages. 9.25x7.50x1.19 inches.

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