Wo | Man Ray - Guadagnini; Pazzola
Seductive Photography
KORTE INHOUD
Man Ray, surrealist master and exponent of the Dada movement, managed to reinvent not only the photographic language, but also the representation of the body and face, as well as the genres of the nude and the portrait themselves. This book brings together around 200 photographs produced from the 1920s right up to his death in 1976, all featuring female subjects.Through rayographs, solarisations and double exposures, the female body undergoes a continual metamorphosis of forms and meanings, becoming an abstract form, an object of seduction, classical memory or realistic portrait, in endless playful and refined variations. Among the protagonists of his shots are Lee Miller, Berenice Abbott, Dora Maar and Juliet, a lifelong companion, to whom is dedicated the amazing The Fifty Faces of Juliet portfolio (1943-1944). But these women were, in turn, great artists: as evidence is presented here a corpus of works dating back to the time - between the 1930s and '40s - of their most direct association with Man Ray and ...
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2020Uitgever: Silvana Editoriale256 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 8836645070ISBN-13: 9788836645077Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Teksten in Italiaans en Engels. Gebonden softcover, als nieuw. ; 2019; Silvana Editoriale; 256 pagina's; Titel: Man Ray. Woman - The Seductions of Photography; Ref: 217697 / U50P472
