Snapshot : Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard
Snapshot : Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard
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Author(s): Cheroux, Clément
Easton, Elizabeth
Easton, Elizabeth W.
Frizot, Michel
Roosenboom, Hans
ISBN No.: 9780300172362
Pages: 248
Year: 201111
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 84.00
Status: Out Of Print

The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to the general public as well as to professionals. Artists were not immune to its allure. At around this time, many began using the camera as an amusing toy, a means of capturing images to be used as studies for final works, and another way to observe the world and the people in it. Snapshot investigates the intriguing photographic experiments of seven Post-Impressionist painters and printmakers: Pierre Bonnard, George Hendrik Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Riviere, Felix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard. Although celebrated for their works on canvas and paper, these artists also made many personal and informal snapshots. Depicting a wide range of subjects, including interiors, city streets, nudes, and portraits, these photographs were kept private and were never exhibited. As a result, they have received little attention in scholarly studies, and most have never been published. Juxtaposing personal photographs with the related paintings and prints by these Post-Impressionist artists, Snapshot offers a new perspective on the story of early photography and on the synthesis of painting and photography at the end of the 19th century.



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