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Irving Penn: Platinum Prints

Door Sarah Greenough

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#336163-WB10
Titel
Irving Penn: Platinum Prints
Auteur
Greenough, Sarah
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Washington/New Haven/London : National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0300109067
ISBN13
9780300109061
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting


In a career that spans more than fifty years, photographer Irving Penn has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century. Although much of his work was undertaken for reproduction in magazines, since the early 1960s he has also made a limited number of platinum/palladium prints of his most celebrated photographs. A meticulous craftsman, Penn has experimented extensively with this process in order to make prints with remarkably subtle, rich tonal ranges and luxurious textures; prints that are, in fact, the exact opposite of the more neutral reproductions of his photographs that appear in the popular press.

Included in this handsomely designed and beautifully produced book are platinum/palladium prints o... (Lees verder)f some of Penn? s most important photographs: portraits of Pablo Picasso, David Smith, Saul Steinberg, and Marcel Duchamp; studies of indigenous peoples in New Guinea and Peru; innovative still lifes; in addition to examples of his celebrated fashion studies.
Pagina's
191
Conditie
Redelijk — Cut foxed; verso dust jacket slightly foxed. Fair good copy.
Prijs
€ 40,00

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