Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance

Paul Martineau

ISBN 10: 0892369612 / ISBN 13: 9780892369614

Published by J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009

About this Item

Hardcover, 164 pages. ?With assistant curator of photographs Paul Martineau?s intriguing biographical essay (based, in part, on the Getty?s archive of Outerbridge papers), 104 stunningly beautiful plates, a chronology, checklist, and index, this catalog offers a highly visual and seductive overview. A section featuring selected photographs from Outerbridge?s California years, a period missing from earlier books, makes this publication of interest to specialists as well.??ARLIS/NA Reviews Record # 362277.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892369612
• ISBN 13: 9780892369614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896–1958) burst onto the photographic art scene in the early 1920s with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. He also applied his talent for composition to the commercial world, introducing an artist’s sensibility to advertisements for men’s haberdashery, glassware, and JELL-OŽ for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. An early master of the technically complex carbro color process, he used it to photograph nudes, often shown with a variety of props—images that skirted the limits of propriety in their day.

            This catalogue was produced for the first exhibition of Outerbridge’s work since 1981, which was held March 31 through August 9, 2009, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. It brought together one hundred photographs from all periods and styles of the photographer’s career, including his Cubistic still-life images, commercial magazine photography, and nudes. The book includes an essay by the curator and a chronology of the artist’s life and work.

About the Author

 Paul Martineau is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.