Alexey Brodovitch

by Gabriel Bauret

Often considered the father of 20th century art direction, Alexey Brodovitch and his contributions to Harper's Bazaar for more than 20 years remain the reference point for generations of photographers and art directors. With an infallible eye, he promoted photographers such as Blumenfeld, Cartier-Bresson, Avedon, and Man Ray. This book is a unique homage to an exceptional talent.
Gabriel Bauret regularly organizes photography exhibitions in Europe&151such as one on Alexey Brodovitch in Paris in 1998. He published Approaches of Photography (Nathan, 1992) and Color Photography (Assouline, 2001), and has written for Zoom magazine.

Genres: Design, Art

120 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001

Reviews

[Tosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a publisher and a book lover - meaning not only just the text, but how the text looks on the page - and then their are images placed near the text... It just doesn't stop and Alexy Brodovitch was a genius in laying out images and text together. Sometimes he would have the images go on to the other page as well. Beautiful. This book is great because you see the original layout of the pages. Mostly if not all from Fashion magazines, which in the 40's and 50's were almost avant-garde works of art. Printing wise!