Paul Outerbridge, Jr: Photographs

Paul Outerbridge, Jr. Edited by Graham Howe and G. Ray Hawkins

ISBN 10: 0847802817 / ISBN 13: 9780847802814

Published by Rizzoli, 1980

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Fine in a Near Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 159pp 4to.

Seller Inventory # 140205

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: Photographs
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847802817
• ISBN 13: 9780847802814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. With Photos
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

One reason—perhaps it’s the reason—we remain fascinated with Outerbridge’s photographs is that he was both an artist and a salesman. Boldly and without apology, he explored photography’s exalted and base natures. The work veers from black-and-white to color, cerebral to carnal, a photographic equivalent of Freud’s Madonna/ complex. Outerbridge made pictures for art and for commerce. Some are subtle, others shameless. Many were reproduced widely; more than a few were censored and some, including the work in the library’s exhibition, had never even previously been printed. Any single photograph is just as likely to pay homage to clical ideals as it is to celebrate the eclectic. The power and pull of Outerbridge’s ouevre, the reason it grabs and holds our attention, is that it swings both ways.