Paul Outerbridge

ISBN-13: 9783836564564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

Manfred Heiting; Elaine Dines-Cox; Carol McCuster

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Light and Shadows
Paul Outerbridge s provocative nudes and pioneering color

Whether in his sumptuous images for advertising or his soft-hued nudes, Paul Outerbridge (1896 1958) was an alchemist of desire. Color was integral to his aesthetic allure, embracing the complex tri-color-carbro process to create a seductive surface of texture and tone. His quest was for artificial paradises a perfection of form, with a surreal edge.

This concise monograph introduces Outerbridge s unique aesthetic and its commercial and artistic trajectory, from his professional peak as New York s highest-paid commercial photographer through to his retreat to Hollywood in the 1940s after a scandal over his erotic photography. With key examples from his oeuvre, the book explores Outerbridge s innovative style through Cubist still life images, magazine photographs, and his controversial nudes, as well as his interaction with other avant-garde photographers, such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Man Ray. Along the way, we recognize Outerbridge s particular ability to transform everyday objects into a quasi-abstract composition and his pioneering role in championing the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color photographs.

Text in English, French, and German"

O autorze

Elaine Dines-Cox ist freie Ausstellungskuratorin mit Wohnsitz in San Franciso. Ihre 1981 erschienene Monographie über Paul Outerbridge war der erste Catalogue Raisonné über einen Fotografen.

Carol McCusker ist als Fotografie-Historikerin und Assistenz-Kuratorin im University Art Museum in Alburquerque tätig.

Manfred Heiting lebt als international anerkannter Designer, Kurator, Foto- und Buchexperte und -sammler in Malibu und Brüssel. Er ist Gründungsmitglied des J. Paul Getty Museum Council und seit 2016 UCLA Dinstinguished Lecturer in the Humanities. Er ist Herausgeber und Designer von Deutschland im Fotobuch, The Soviet Photobook, The Japanese Photobook und Mitherausgeber und Designer von Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918-1945.