Making strange : the modernist photobook in France / Kim Sichel.

Main entry:

Sichel, Kim, author.

Title & Author:

Making strange : the modernist photobook in France / Kim Sichel.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-211) and index.
Montage : Germaine Krull's Métal -- Dream detectives : Brassaï's Paris de nuit -- Elegy : Pierre Jahan's La mort et les statues -- Nostalgia : the photobooks of Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Transitions : from Paris to New York and Japan.

Summary:

France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and beautifully illustrated, Making Strange reasserts the role of French photobooks in the history of modern art.--Page 4 of cover.

Biographical note:

Kim Sichel is associate professor of the history of photography and modern art at Boston University.

ISBN:

9780300246186 hardcover
0300246188 hardcover

Subject:

Photobooks France History.
Artists' books France History.
Photography literature France History.
Livres photos France Histoire.
Livres d'artistes France Histoire.
Littérature photographique France Histoire.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Artists' books.
Photobooks.
Photography literature.
France.
1928-1958

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks.
History.
Livres de photographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 308519
Call No.: TR501.5 .S52 2020
Status: Available

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