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Degas’s major surviving photographs--figure studies, portraits of friends and family, and self-portraits little known even among devotees of the artist’s paintings and pastels--are analyzed and reproduced for the first time in this volume, which accompanied an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Eyewitness accounts of Degas’s photographic activity from the journals of Daniel Halévy and Julie Manet, as well as from the artist’s own letters, are included in Malcolm Daniel’s essay, “The Atmosphere of Lamps or Moonlight,” which explores the connection between events in Degas’s life and his decision to take up the camera. Eugenia Parry’s “Edgar Degas’s Photographic Theater” illuminates the interplay between painting, posing, theatrical direction, and photography in Degas’s work.
[This book was originally published in 1999 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]
Eyewitness accounts of Degas’s photographic activity from the journals of Daniel Halévy and Julie Manet, as well as from the artist’s own letters, are included in Malcolm Daniel’s essay, “The Atmosphere of Lamps or Moonlight,” which explores the connection between events in Degas’s life and his decision to take up the camera. Eugenia Parry’s “Edgar Degas’s Photographic Theater” illuminates the interplay between painting, posing, theatrical direction, and photography in Degas’s work.
[This book was originally published in 1999 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]
