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A Singular Elegance: The Photographs of Baron Adolph De Meyer

Door Anne Ehrenkranz e.a.

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#367018-AE15
Titel
A Singular Elegance: The Photographs of Baron Adolph De Meyer
Auteur
Ehrenkranz, Anne & John Szarkowski & Willis Hartshorn
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
San Fransisco : Chronicle Books
Jaar van uitgave
1994
ISBN10
0811808300
ISBN13
9780811808309
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with full page b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting
Flipping through this collection of fashion and portrait photographs by Baron Adolph de Meyer is like attending a glitterati cocktail party circa 1920. A raucous Josephine Baker clinks glasses with a suitably sophisticated Coco Chanel; an earthy Claude Monet eyes the ethereal Anna Pavlova; Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney poses like queen of the socialites; and Mary Pickford exudes the freshness of the bouquet she cradles in her arms. De Meyer photographed for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazar at a time (chronicled here by photography writer Ehrenkranz) when fame was just beginning to rub shoulders with fortune, and the baron has captured the era with a hazy, soft-focus glow. But his most enduring images are not those of befeathered models who seem to have walked out of a Busby Berkeley extra... (Lees verder)vaganza nor the studied portraits of beautiful women, but his series of photos of the ephemeral yet immortal dancing of Vaslav Nijinsky. De Meyer captures him in a chameleonlike range of moods: his feline eroticisim in Scheherazade, his playfulness in Le Carnaval, his classical restraint in Le Pavillon d'Armide, and the sculptural formality giving way to sensual release in the scandalous Le Prelude de l'apres-midi d'un faune.
Pagina's
142
Conditie
Goed — Still shrinkwrapped.
Prijs
€ 25,00

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