Berenice Abbott: Paris Portraits 1925-1930

Ron Kurtz, Hank O'Neal

Steidl, Commerce Graphics, 2016

68,00

This volume explore Berenice Abbott’s oeuvre. Abbott began her photographic career in Paris in 1925, taking portraits of some the most celebrated artists and writers of the day, including Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, Coco Chanel, Max Ernst, André Gide, Philippe Soupault and James Joyce. Within a year her work was exhibited and acclaimed. Paris Portraits 1925–1930 features the results of Abbott’s earliest photographic project and illustrates the philosophy of all her subsequent work. For this landmark book, 115 portraits of 83 subjects have been scanned from the original glass negatives, the full negatives have been printed, and a die-cut overleaf presents each portrait incorporating Abbott’s cropping instructions.

Artikelnummer: 13850 Categorie:

ISBN: 9783869303536

368 pagina's, geïllustreerd, 24 × 30 cm, hardcover, Engels