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Edgar Degas, Photographer

Malcolm Daniel; Edgar Degas

Synopsis:
Impressionist painter Edgar Degas' canvases, pastels, and sculptures are recognized around the world. Few people, however, are aware that late in his career Degas produced a series of mesmerizing photographs. This book accompanies the first exhibition to focus on these imaginative works; they were never displayed in public in the artist's lifetime.Some 40 photographs are reproduced in exquisite tritone and duotone plates. Most of these are portraits of family and friends taken in 1895. Carefully posed and lit and often requiring long exposures, they are utterly distinctive works that stretch the physical and expressive limits of the medium.The photographs will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, beginning in October 1998. The exhibition travels to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in January 1999 and to the Bibliothýque Nationale de Paris in May.Malcolm Daniel is associate curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum.Eugenia Parry is an independent scholar based in New Mexico who has published extensively on Degas.Theodore Reff is professor of art history at Columbia University in New York City.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Hardcover - 1998, Hardcover - 1998, Softcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1993