Angus McBean: portraits - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855145154 ISBN 13: 9781855145153

Verlag: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2022

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Angus McBean (1904-90) was one of the most extraordinary British photographers of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned the start of the Second World War through the birth of the 'Swinging Sixties' to the 1980s, he became the most prominent theatre photographer of his generation and, along with Cecil Beaton, the last of the British avant-garde studio photographers. During the 1930s and 1940s, McBean developed Surrealist techniques, including the depiction of the actress Dorothy Dickson as a water lily. Yet his style kept pace with the times and by the 1950s and 1960s he was taking photographs of celebrities from Cliff Richard to Shirley Bassey. Arguably his most famous image is of the Beatles, leaning over the balcony at their recording studios, which was used on the album cover Please Please Me. His celebrated series of self-portraits, which he sent out as Christmas cards, capture his witty and eccentric personality, while his numerous photographic commissions in the 1980s - including his work with the pop singer David Sylvian - demonstrate his inventiveness and creativity. For the first time since his death in 1990, McBean's photographs of stars such as Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Audrey Hepburn, and his colour prints from the 1960s of the Beatles, Maria Callas and Spike Milligan are to be brought together in a major retrospective exhibition, accompanied by this fascinating book. Terence Pepper's intriguing account of McBean's life and work includes extracts from the photographer's unpublished autobiography and is illustrated throughout with full-page colour and duotone reproductions. Published to accompany the retrospective exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London (5 July-22 October 2006), Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (2 December 2006-10 March 2007), Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (31 March-3 June 2007) and at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (31 March 2007-20 May 2007).

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Collectie van de prachtige portretten van de 'rich and famous' gefotografeerd door de opmerkelijke Angus McBean

Angus McBean was een van de meest opmerkelijke Britse fotografen van de twintigste eeuw. Zijn carriere omspande de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de Swinging Sixties en de jaren tachtig. Met Cecil Beaton was McBean de laatste van de Britse avant-garde studiofotografen.

McBean maakte prachtige portretten van onder meer Vivian Leagh, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud en Audrey Hepburn, maar ook de Beatles, Maria Callas en Spike Milligan heeft hij geportretteerd. Terence Pepper schreef de essays en biedt een verrassend licht op McBeans leven, mede door de publicatie van artikelen uit zijn niet eerder gepubliceerde autobiografie.

Voor het eerst sinds zijn dood in 1990 zijn McBeans fotos van beroemdheden bijeengebracht. Voor de liefhebbers van portretfotografie is deze publicatie een prachtig eerbetoon aan de belangrijkste Britse fotograaf van zijn generatie.

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• Verlag: National Portrait Gallery Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1855145154
• ISBN 13: 9781855145153
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
• Herausgeber: Pepper Terence