LISETTE MODEL Street Life - Poggi Monica

street life

KORTE INHOUD

With an ironic and brazen look, Lisette Model was able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of postwar American society.

Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and Sixties.

Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her students authors who later became famous such as Diane Arbus and Larry Fink - Lisette Model was an ironic and irreverent photographer, able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of post-war American society.

Alongside the most famous series - such as Promenade des Anglais , created in Nice, or the photographs dedicated to New Yorkers or the very suggestive ones made in jazz clubs - the book also proposes lesser-known projects, which account for her personal and sardonic photographic language. The close-up shots, the recurring use of the flash, the exasper...
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2021Uitgever: , Silvana Editoriale, 2021128 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 8836648320ISBN-13: 9788836648320

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