Looking at Death contains powerful images from studios and family photos of actual corpses which still remain a largely taboo subject. Yet this book confronts this taboo head first; ensuring the reader gets a unique experience as they face up to life’s only inevitability.
A selection of 107 duotones drawn from the exhibition of the same name held at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (where Norfleet is Curator) at Harvard University during March-April 1993.
This book contains ninety-eight black and white shots that retrace the most important and tragic events of the previous century, from the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War, to the birth of the State of Israel. They also include a series of portraits of Capa’s friends, famous artists such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
Brassai (1899–1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that forms the bedrock of his body of work.
Walking the city’s streets at night, Brassai captured a previously unseen world on camera. He shows us every face and every facet, from tough guys and showgirls to prostitutes and pleasure-seekers, from the bustling cafés and dance halls to the stillness of deserted streets and mist-shrouded monuments. Through his eyes, Paris becomes a world of shadows, in which light, the prerequisite for any photograph, is reduced to dimly lit windows, streetlamps in the fog, or reflections on a rain-soaked pavement.
This book brings together some of the best-known images from Brassai’s classic Paris After Dark and The Secret Paris of the 30’s, showcasing them alongside previously unpublished photos and archive material. It places his work in its historical and artistic context, analyzing the unique nature of his photographic vision: part reportage, part social document, part poetic exploration. 296 illustrations, 214 in duotone
Looking at Death
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Looking at Death contains powerful images from studios and family photos of actual corpses which still remain a largely taboo subject. Yet this book confronts this taboo head first; ensuring the reader gets a unique experience as they face up to life’s only inevitability.
A selection of 107 duotones drawn from the exhibition of the same name held at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (where Norfleet is Curator) at Harvard University during March-April 1993.
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