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Brassai in America, 1957

BuchGebunden
168 Seiten
Englisch
Rizzoli International Publicationserschienen am03.10.2011
This title offers a rare discovery of more than 150 previously unpublished photographs in black and white and in color, from a legendary photographer. Despite strong personal and professional ties in the US Henry Miller, Harpers Bazaar's Carmel Snow, and Edward Steichen, who featured Brassai's work in many MoMA exhibitions Brassai remained reticent about travel to the United States until 1957 when Holiday magazine offered generous compensation (and artistic freedom) to photograph New York, Louisiana, and along the east coast. From the first symbolic image of this voyage the Statue of Liberty appearing over the ships prow Brassai came under the spell of America and his photographs innately captured his new perspective. In New York, he was captivated by the graphic skyscrapers and the rhythmic to-ing and fro-ing of the crowds. Unlike his static photographs of Paris posing prostitutes, embracing lovers, sleeping street people here he captured sequences of movement children playing, fashionable women parading by, or the effects of light filtering through the urban architecture.In Louisiana, he continued to photograph more languorous sequences, but here he reveled in color the copper skin of sunbathers, the pastel tones of prom dresses, the vibrant neon of amusement park attractions. The New Orleans music halls, nightlife, women, and exotic vegetation recall scenes from 1930s Paris. This exuberant study of 1950s America offers the reader unprecedented access to Brassai's work including previously unpublished color photography.mehr

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KlappentextThis title offers a rare discovery of more than 150 previously unpublished photographs in black and white and in color, from a legendary photographer. Despite strong personal and professional ties in the US Henry Miller, Harpers Bazaar's Carmel Snow, and Edward Steichen, who featured Brassai's work in many MoMA exhibitions Brassai remained reticent about travel to the United States until 1957 when Holiday magazine offered generous compensation (and artistic freedom) to photograph New York, Louisiana, and along the east coast. From the first symbolic image of this voyage the Statue of Liberty appearing over the ships prow Brassai came under the spell of America and his photographs innately captured his new perspective. In New York, he was captivated by the graphic skyscrapers and the rhythmic to-ing and fro-ing of the crowds. Unlike his static photographs of Paris posing prostitutes, embracing lovers, sleeping street people here he captured sequences of movement children playing, fashionable women parading by, or the effects of light filtering through the urban architecture.In Louisiana, he continued to photograph more languorous sequences, but here he reveled in color the copper skin of sunbathers, the pastel tones of prom dresses, the vibrant neon of amusement park attractions. The New Orleans music halls, nightlife, women, and exotic vegetation recall scenes from 1930s Paris. This exuberant study of 1950s America offers the reader unprecedented access to Brassai's work including previously unpublished color photography.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-2-08-020084-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum03.10.2011
Seiten168 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 228 mm, Höhe 245 mm, Dicke 27 mm
Gewicht1066 g
Artikel-Nr.12832573
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GenreKunst/Architektur

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Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, former Inspector-General of photography for the French Ministry of Culture, is a leading authority on photography. Brassaï (1899-1984), a major twentieth-century photographer, published Paris by Night in 1933. His career, spanning fifty years, included sculpture, writing, and film. Flammarion has also published Brassaï Graffiti and Brassaï An Illustrated Biography.