Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France
by Kim Sichel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0300246188
- ISBN 13
- 9780300246186
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 2020. Hardcover. New. New oversized case-wrapped hardcover. 4to. (8.75 x 1 x 11.3 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W and color photos and illustrations printed on heavy paper throughout the book. Includes photo credits, bibliography and an index. 224 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century
France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and beautifully illustrated, Making Strange reasserts the role of French photobooks in the history of modern art.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century
France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and beautifully illustrated, Making Strange reasserts the role of French photobooks in the history of modern art.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201153
- Title
- Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France
- Author
- Kim Sichel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300246188
- ISBN 13
- 9780300246186
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- Modern art, photography, book binding, book design, France,
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