"LISA FONSSAGRIVES-PENN. THREE DECADES OF CLASSIC FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY". Collectif. Editions Schirmer/Mosel, Munich. 2017. Imprimé en Italie. Petit in-4, couverture toilée noire sous jaquette photo. Pages de garde illustrées. 152 pages. Texte en anglais de Martin Harrison, introduction par David Seidner, illustré de 118 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte. Complet de sa brochure contenant la traduction des textes en allemand. 

 

"Beautiful, intelligent, and cultured, Lisa Fonssagrives was the embodiment of elegance, refinement, and chic - terms that today have literally gone out of fashion in her metier. A trained dancer who had superior control over her body, she was her own make-up and hair stylist and didn't use stand-ins even for daredevil shootings, such as Blumenfeld's woman hanging perilously from the Eiffel tower. She was the most sought-after model from the 1930s to the 1950s and she reached the peak of her success when she was almost forty years old..." 

 

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