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Carolyn Kinder Carr, Hans Namuth, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Hans Namuth: Portraits

€19,95

During the summer and early fall of 1950, as Jackson Pollock moved about the huge canvases on the floor of his Long Island studio, defining their surfaces with dripped and thrown paint, a young photographer named Hans Namuth documented the artist at work. The best of his nearly five hundred photographs, first published in Portfolio and Art News magazines, enhanced public understanding of Pollock's paintings and began for Namuth a forty-year career of photographing America's leading painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and architects. Accompanied by a biographical essay by Carolyn Kinder Carr, this collection of seventy-five of Hans Namuth's photographic portraits, taken between 1950 and 1989, shows how his friendships with his often reclusive subjects and his determination to capture the essence of each artist's style resulted in revealing portraits of such notable painters as Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, Helen Frankenthaler, and Andy Warhol.

Format: Hardcover
Published: in USA in 1999
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pages: 166
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781560988090
ISBN 10: 1560988096

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Hans Namuth: Portraits

€19,95