Picasso and Photography: The Dark Mirror
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Review The visual detective work here is amazing. -- Buffalo News, December 21, 1997 Read more Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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An attractive and sturdily-bound trade paperback from Flammarion.257 pp, 3 pounds. Color, mono-tone, and b&w illustrations throughout. 18 pp of bibliographic information: a bibliography supplemented by narrative and bibliographic end notes.TABLE OF CONTENTSTools for the Eye1900-1906 Monochrome as Paradigm- Dark Mirror- A "Modern Masterpiece"- Photographic Incarnations1906-1909 Grasping the Visible- An African Source for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon- The Bateau-Lavoir Lab- A Summer in Horta1910-1914 "Discovering" Photography- Studio Portraits- Photographic Staging and Compositions1914-1923 Figurative Disorders- The Artist and his Model- Light and Line: Drawings "Based on a Photograph"- Pictorial Variations1925-1945 Metamorphoses- Autoscopy- "A Profound Sculpture Out of Nothing"- "Faster Than Images..."- Charnel Houses1950-1960 Beyond Appearances- "Space Drawings"- Photographic Cutouts- "Someone is Scrawling..."- Graffiti