Robert Doisneau
Épouvantables épouvantails: photographies, 1965
Paris: Editions Hors Mesure
One of 750 copies. Inscribed by Doisneau to the photographer Yousuf Karsh.
2461
Octavo. (61)pp. Doisneau's eerie portraits of scarecrows emblematize the eccentric objectivity which characterized his photographs, presenting an uncanny version of his peer Henri Cartier-Bresson's 'decisive moment.' Images accompanied by excerpts...
Octavo. (61)pp. Doisneau's eerie portraits of scarecrows emblematize the eccentric objectivity which characterized his photographs, presenting an uncanny version of his peer Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment." Images accompanied by excerpts from various French poets and intellectuals, including Baudelaire and Montesquieu, which add a sense of postwar malaise to the images. Bound in gray-blue cloth over boards. Some shelf-toning, white mark along edge of upper board, else vg+.
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