Erwin Blumenfeld: Photographs, Drawings and Photomontages

Paris and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. 263 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 28 cm. English Edition. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, October 15, 2013 to January 26, 2014 and at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, February 17 to May 11, 2014. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. " Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. This text broadens our understanding of Blumenfeld's innovations, reuniting all the media used by the artist throughout his long career: drawing, photography, photomontage and collage." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Berlin-Amsterdam-Paris-New York: Erwin Blumenfeld, a 20th-century figure, by Ute Eskildsen. Drawings; "Every picture a short story, complete in itself": a reading of Erwin Blumenfeld's early work, by Helen Adkins. Collages, photomontages; The instant is everything, life is nothing, by Janos Frecot. Self-portraits; portraits; Stone beauty: women as photographic material in Erwin Blumenfeld's experimental portraits and nudes in the 1930s, by Esther Ruelfs. Nudes; Rearranging the dictator's face: Erwin Blumenfeld's last political photographs, by Wolfgang Bruckle. The dictator; Masks; Fashion magazines; Architecture; Shedding light on what once was, by Francois Cheval; A biography, by Nadia Blumenfeld Charbit.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.