First Edition. Language: English. ISBN: No ISBN.

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; Physical description; 367 pages ; 29 cm. Alongside her activities as an architect, designer, town planner and militant, in the 1930s Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was also an avid photographer. Summary; Published to accompany a series of exhibitions held in Zurich, Paris and Chalon-sur-Saone.Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was one of the most innovative furniture and interior designers of the 20th century, long renowned for the tubular-steel chairs she created with Le Corbusier. Her career spanned nearly 75 years and included work in her native France as well as in Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe, and today her designs are highly collectable. Recently, several hundred photographic negatives were uncovered in her archives, revealing for the first time the scope of her work as a photographer. In the late 1920s, French interior and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was at the cusp of her career, just beginning her work as an architect, designer, town planner, and political militant. Starting in 1927, she turned to photography, which was to play a pivotal role in her development as a designer through the pioneering years of the modern movement. Her photographic venture ended in Japan in 1941, when the hope of a better world was shattered by WorldWar II. For Charlotte Perriand, photography was a machine for thinking, taking notes, and stirring emotions, but it was also an instrument of political engagement. Today, her photographs are a revelation, offering unseen glimpses into her creative process and intellectual development. Her photographs express the important themes and questions explored by modern artists of the day, and are part of the vast stream of avant-garde movements in which painters, architects, and photographers-and sometimes all three combined-worked together in a common spirit. Biography; Jacques Barsac has made some forty documentaries on art and historical subjects, winning twenty prizes in international festivals, including a silver medal from the Academie d'Architecture. With this book, which follows his Charlotte Perriand. Un art d'habiter (2006), he continues to explore the work of this pioneer in the twentieth-century modern movement. Francois Cheval, sociologist, anthropologist and great expert in the world of photography, is the Director of Musee Nicephore Niepce in Chalon-sur Saone, a temple of photography dedicated to the one who invented it in 1816. Alfred Paquement, curator of Monumenta 2008, has been the Director of the Musee national d'Art moderne Centre Pompidou since September 2000. Subjects; Perriand, Charlotte 1903-1999 - Exhibitions. Photography, Artistic - Exhibitions. Individual photographers. PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs.



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BZDB318 Unbranded Barsac, Jacques. Perriand, Charlotte (1903-1999) Charlotte Perriand : photography : a wide-angle eye / Jacques Barsac ; introduction by Francois Cheval ; foreword by Alfred Paquement