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Brilliant and sophisticated fashion photographer, leading artist of
Vogue magazine for six decades, Horst P. Horst has become a
reference for entire generations in this photographic genre. This
volume traces Horst's main creative periods, from the beginning of
his career to his latest creations, with a focus on some highlights
of his production: the link with classical art which, nevertheless,
doesn't elude the influences of the avant-gardes, and surrealism in
particular; the visual investigation of the human figure's harmony
and elegance, embellished by the perfect mastery of scene lighting;
the fruitful and lasting collaboration with Vogue, a magazine for
which the photographer has provided dozens of covers; the portraits
of stars from the world of fashion and art, often set in their own
homes, which once again reveal his indisputable compositional
skills. Over 120 works, chosen from among his best known ones by
the author himself, alongside a series of surprising previously
unpublished works, testify to the talent and creative vision of one
of the leading figures in 20th century photography. Text in English
and Italian.
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 with the
environment of the Dada avant-garde and Parisian surrealism. This
volume offers a wide survey of one of the most exuberant periods of
the 20th century, with authentic masterpieces of photographic art
such as the Electricite portfolios (1931) and the very rare Les
mannequins. Resurrection des mannequins (1938). Text in English and
Italian.
This book covers the last 20 years of artistic research by one of
the leading contemporary Italian photographers: Walter Niedermayr.
Through the recurring themes of his work such as Alpine landscapes,
architecture and the relationship between public and private
spaces, the artist's interest in investigating places not only from
a geographical but also from a social point of view is highlighted.
Although in continuity with the legacy of the Italian photographic
tradition, which views the landscape as the key to interpreting
society, Niedermayr's visual research is significant in terms of
its ability to reinterpret this subject and renew it from both a
conceptual and a formal point of view. For the South Tyrolean
photographer, physical space today cannot be approached with an
exclusively documentary intention, but as the pivot of a
transformative relationship between ecology, architecture and
society. In some of the works in the Alpine Landschaften (Alpine
Landscapes) series, for example, the presence of man in the
depiction of the landscape is interpreted as a parameter for
measuring the proportions of Alpine panoramas, and at the same time
as a political yardstick for his intervention in the metamorphosis
of the natural equilibrium. This topic is also underlined in works
such as Portraits, where the snow cannons filmed during the summer
season - and thus inactive - become ambiguous presences residing in
the landscape. Text in English and Italian.
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