Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France
by Sichel, Kim
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300246188
- ISBN 13
- 9780300246186
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pictorial boards, ix, 221 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "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 Brassai , 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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Montage: Germaine Krull's Me tal; Dream detectives: Brassai 's Paris de nuit; Elegy: Pierre Jahan's La mort et les statues; Nostalgia: the photobooks of Henri Cartier-Bresson; Transitions: from Paris to New York and Japan.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- 119939
- Title
- Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France
- Author
- Sichel, Kim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300246188
- ISBN 13
- 9780300246186
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2020
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; Photography / History; European / French;
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