"LISETTE MODEL – AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH". Collectif. Editions Aperture Foundation, New York. 2007.
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LISETTE MODEL – AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH
"LISETTE MODEL – AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH". Collectif. Editions Aperture Foundation, New York. 2007. Imprimé en Italie. Grand in-4, couverture cartonnée sous jaquette photo. 112 pages. Texte en anglais de Berenice Abbott, illustré de 51 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, pleine page dont 15 en double page, par Lisette Model.
"Lisette Model is an unsurpassed introduction to one of the twentieth century's most significant photographers - a woman whose searing images and eloquent teachings deeply influenced her students Diane Arbus, Larry Fink, and many others. To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of her death in 1983, Aperture is reissuing this classic 1979 monograph. The first book ever published on Model, it is being produced in the original oversize format and with the original distinctive design by Marvin Israel, with an updated chronology and bibliography. Lisette Model was one of the extraordinary figures of modern photography. Her first photographs of the idle rich vacationing on Nice's Promenade des Anglais won instant acclaim in the late 1930s, shortly after Model emigrated to New York with her artist husband, the painter Evsa Model. Enthusiastically supported by American masters such as Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Berenice Abbott, and Edward Weston, Model's images received widespread recognition through museums, galleries, and magazines. An intensely private individual, Model fought celebrity. Until the publication of this Aperture monograph, she had steadfastly refused to publish her work in book form. Few artists have elicited such powerful responses. To some critics, Model's camera was a tough, frightening instrument - one she used as a "whiplash." To Others, Model possessed a unique warmth, unearthing an eerie beauty, even a grandeur, in people at every station of life. This volume contains more than fifty plates, representing Model's greatest images, from the Promenade series to later studies of surreal inhabitants of New York taken in thoroughfares and hideaways. Her vision encompasses an ingenious exploration of the mystery of glamour in America: in window displays, jazz clubs, the circus, and elsewhere…"
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