Lisette Model: Street Life (Fotografia) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8836648320 ISBN 13: 9788836648320

Verlag: Silvana, 2021

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Lisette Model captures a grotesque vision of postwar American society with her bold and ironic street photography

Published alongside a double solo show with Horst P. Horst at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, this book presents a selection of over 100 images by Austrian photographer Lisette Model (1901–83). Model is known primarily as an influential teacher to notable 20th-century photographers such as Diane Arbus and Larry Fink, but her own work as a pioneering and irreverent street photographer reveals a unique and grotesque vision of humanity—the close-up shots, the use of flash, the exasperated contrasts all accentuate the imperfections of the bodies, the flashy clothes, the coarse gestures. There is no interaction between Model and her subjects, who tend to be caught suddenly, while they eat, sing or gesticulate awkwardly, transformed by her shots into the characters of an irreverent human comedy. This is the first Italian-language volume to be published on the artist.

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With an ironic and brazen look, Lisette Model was able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of postwar American society.

Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and Sixties.
Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her students authors who later became famous such as Diane Arbus and Larry Fink - Lisette Model was an ironic and irreverent photographer, able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of post-war American society.
Alongside the most famous series - such as Promenade des Anglais, created in Nice, or the photographs dedicated to New Yorkers or the very suggestive ones made in jazz clubs - the book also proposes lesser-known projects, which account for her personal and sardonic photographic language. The close-up shots, the recurring use of the flash, the exasperated contrasts are the expedients that the author resorts to in order to accentuate the imperfections of the bodies and the coarse gestures of her subjects, transformed into the characters of a sneering human comedy: an approach to reality which made Lisette Model the forerunner of a way of using photography that would find full realization only in the following decades.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Silvana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Italienisch
• ISBN 10: 8836648320
• ISBN 13: 9788836648320
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
• Herausgeber: Poggi Monica
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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