"EDWARD QUIGLEY – AMERICAN MODERNIST". Collectif. Editions Houk Friedman, New York. 1991. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 96 pages. Texte en anglais de Robert A. Sobieszek, illustré de 22 vignettes in-texte et 116 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc hors texte par Edward Quigley. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à la galerie Houk Friedman, New York, du 17 Avril au 1er Juin 1991.

 

"To his contemporaries in the 1930s, Edward Quigley was a leading art photographer, who was well-known as an experimenter and an innovator, particularly for his light abstractions, which were executed in 1931. He exhibited nationally and internationally and was a prominent member of prestigious art and photography societies, winning accolades and prizes throughout the United States and Europe. He participated in salon organization and personally arranged exhibitions of the work of Edward Weston and László Moholy-Nagy. His work was regularly published in newspapers, magazines, and photographic annuals, including U.S. Camera, Photographie, etc. At the same time, he was a thoroughly professional advertising photographer with a firm grasp of technique and a knack for self-promotion, a handy talent in the competitive field of commercial photography. He enjoyed about 25 years - from the late 1920s to the early 1950s - in or near the photographic limelight in his hometown, Philadelphia. Yet time and circumstance have obscured his name and reputation to the extent that today - a little more than a dozen years after his death - it is necessary to rediscover Edward Quigley, as an individual and as an innovator…"

 

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