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Berenice Abbott Photographer: An Independent Vision
Door George Sullivan
Categorie | Fotografie (Kunst) |
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Boeknummer | #332165-AE6 |
Titel | Berenice Abbott Photographer: An Independent Vision |
Auteur | Sullivan, George |
Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
Uitgeverij | New York : Clarion Books |
Jaar van uitgave | 2006 |
ISBN10 | 0618440267 |
ISBN13 | 9780618440269 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Original silver lettered black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 4to. |
Samenvatting | One theme repeatedly crops up in the life and career of Berenice Abbott: her refusal to be defined by other people's expectations. Spurning traditional roles for women of her era, she lived a bohemian life among other artists in New York's Greenwich Village and Paris, and embarked upon a career in what was then a male-dominated field. Decades later, her photographs are celebrated as some of the most authentic images of a city ever captured on film, and she is remembered not only as a master American photographer but also as a teacher, writer, inventor, and photographic archivist. Veteran nonfiction writer George Sullivan draws on his vast knowledge of the photographic world to chronicle Berenice Abbott's life and career, and to present a fascinating social portrait of the artistic commu... (Lees verder)nity of New York in the early half of the 20th century. Interviews with her contemporaries and high- quality reproductions of some of her most famous photographs provide an illuminating image of this determined, spirited woman who changed the face of American photography. Bibliography, index. |
Pagina's | 170 |
Conditie | Goed |
Prijs | € 10,00 |
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