William A. Ewing
Autore di Il corpo: riproduzioni fotografiche del corpo umano
Sull'Autore
William A. Ewing is Director of the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, the world-renowned museum of photography.
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1944-05-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Lausanne, Switzerland - Attività lavorative
- museum director
curator
professor - Organizzazioni
- Musee de l'Elysee
University of Geneva - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Officer, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 50
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 1,507
- Popolarità
- #17,058
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 86
- Lingue
- 7
In Blumenfeld: Photographs, William A. Ewing explores the life and work of this extraordinary and multitalented man. Blumenfeld took up photography almost by chance in the 1920s, beginning with portraiture and the nude. His highly original and visionary work was a seamless blend of the negative and the positive: taking the picture in the studio and making it in the darkroom. Highly inventive, he developed his own idiosyncratic language, using solarization and negative printing, double and multiple exposures, and a host of hybrid techniques. His interests soon expanded to include architectural subjects, landscapes, and works of art, but photographing "Woman" - or capturing the "eternal feminine," as Blumenfeld described it - would remain his chief obsession throughout his life.
This book is the first retrospective examination of Blumenfeld's work. It brings together the diverse achievements of this brilliant photographer in more than 235 images in both color and black-and-white, providing a thorough representation of his drawings, collages, and photographs.… (altro)