de Meyer
Book
Date:
1976
Format:
Hardcover
Description:
51 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 25 x 32.5 cm.
Summary:
"[Baron Adolf de Meyer's] camera defined the beauty and elegance of the 1920's. He helped to set the taste of an era and, in the course of doing so, established a new genre--fashion photography--that has never to this day ceased to feel his influence. This book, faithfully reproducing the finest of his photographs, is a tribute to his art--an important rediscovery... Very little of de Meyer's work has been seen in the decades since its first publication, and long before his death in 1949 he himself had slipped out of the public eye. Robert Brandau, a professional photographer, has devoted years to tracking down the original prints reproduced in this book. Philippe Jullian, biographer of Edward VII, Oscar Wilde, and Robert de Montesquiou, has prefaced them with a memoir of the Baron's richly colorful life and times. Their labor of love is certain to restore de Meyer to his rightful place as both photographic pioneer and authentic genius of the camera." -- from book jacket