Faces - the power of the human visage : Helmar Lerski and portrait photography between the wars

Starting with helmar Lerski's exemplary photo series Metamorphosis through Light from 1935-1936, this volume presents portraits from the period of the Weimar Republic. During the 1920s and '30s, photographers radically revised conventional notions of the portrait. No longer were photograph...

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Format: Livre papier
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Munich : Vienna : Hirmer ; Albertina [2021].
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Nota: Exposition tenue du 12 février au 24 mai 2021 à The Albertina Museum, Vienne.
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