FACES NOW of ALEX CONSANI, PALOMA ELSESSER, and ANOK YAI MEET the MOMENT with GRIT and GRACE

Story by LEAH CHERNIKOFF

When Richard Avedon guest-edited the April 1965 edition of Harper’s Bazaar, the issue was billed as “a partial passport to the offbeat side of Now.” For the cover, he snapped the model of the moment, Jean “the Shrimp” Shrimpton, with her face framed by a Day-Glo fuchsia cutout that evoked an astronaut’s helmet. This April marks the 60th anniversary of Avedon’s celebrated issue, and we’ve taken many cues from it as inspiration for this one, which is dedicated to the idea of “now.” As in the 1965 issue, we gathered artists and writers, from Lorna Simpson to Torrey Peters, to fill the pages with their responses and reactions to these times. One big difference between then and now is that today it would be impossible to identify a single face that defines…

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Harper's Bazaar (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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