Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine. In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began. Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits of skilled tradespeople dressed in their work clothes and carrying the tools of their respective trades. Capturing the humble coal heaver and the crisply dressed waiter with equal directness, Penn’s arresting portraits also underscore fascinating cultural differences.
The Small Trades was Penn’s most extensive body of work, and he returned to it over many decades, producing ever more exacting prints. Two hundred-six unique images from the series are flawlessly reproduced in this book. In addition, the introductory essay describes the history and context of The Small Trades series and its importance to Penn’s career and the history of photography. An interview with Edmonde Charles-Roux, the chief editor for French Vogue from 1952 to 1966, who assisted Penn on the assignment in Paris, provides fascinating insights of the Paris sittings.

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Arts & Photography

Heckert, Virginia

Lacoste, Anne

History & Criticism

J.paul Getty Museum

In recent years Felice Beato (1832–1909) has come to be recognized as one of the major photographers of the nineteenth century, yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work. Born in Venice, Italy, Beato came of age in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. As a young apprentice in 1856, he photographed the sites of the Crimean War, thereby launching a long and remarkably adventurous career. Over the next half century he would follow in the wake of the British Empire: Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; India, where he photographed the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny; and China, where he chronicled the Second Opium War. He spent some thirty years in Japan and Burma, where he was among the first commercial photographers at the time that these countries were starting to open to the West.
The text includes an engaging narrative of his life and entrepreneurial career and a thought-provoking essay on Beato and the photography of war. There is a generous selection of his photographs, including panoramas and hand-colored Japanese studies, along with captivating period ephemera, lithographs based on his work, and humorous caricatures of the artist.

Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road

History

Au-delà de la figure emblématique de Félix Nadar, l’exposition à la Bibliothèque nationale de France embrasse pour la première fois toute l’histoire de l’atelier des Nadar du début des années 1850 jusqu’à la fin des années 1930 en s’appuyant sur les très riches collections de la BnF, des prêts du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, du John Paul Getty Museum de Los Angeles et du musée d’Orsay.Le catalogue édité à cette occasion propose des études spécifiques sur chacun des trois photographes – Félix Nadar (1820-1910), son frère Adrien Tournachon (1825-1903,) et son fils Paul Nadar (1856-1939) – et sur leurs collaborations, et met en lumière l’héritage de l’un des ateliers les plus importants et les plus durables des débuts de la photographie. Portraits et autoportraitsL’ouvrage présente une sélection d’autoportraits des trois photographes et de portraits de leur cercle privé réalisés au cours du temps, révélant leur implication personnelle dans l’atelier, leurs relations complexes.Les portraits de Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Sarah Bernhardt ou George Sand comptent également parmi les chefs-d’œuvre qui figurent dans l’ouvrage aux côtés d’autres personnages connus et influents de leur époque. Ces clichés permettent de mettre en évidence les approches différentes des trois Nadar ainsi que l’évolution des techniques photographiques et du goût au cours d’un siècle. Promotion de la photographie et amélioration des techniquesLes Nadar se sont considérablement impliqués dans la promotion de la photographie à travers leur intérêt pour différents domaines d’actualité (édition, sciences, conquête de l’air) et leur contribution à l’amélioration des techniques (de l’éclairage électrique à la photographie instantanée en passant par la photographie aérienne).  Leurs multiples innovations sont présentées dans cette somme sans précédent traduisant l’étendue de l’inspiration et des travaux d’une dynastie de photographes légendaires.

Les Nadar - Une légende photographique

AUBENAS, SYLVIE

Photography & Video

A survey of young photographers for the third edition of reGeneration. The project reGeneration, by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (Switzerland), is dedicated to discovering and representing young photographers. Following the success of the two previous editions, through hundreds of images, reGeneration3 showcases the creativity of fifty up-and-coming photographers from twenty countries.

Regeneration3

Skira

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Irving Penn: Small Trades

Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road

Les Nadar - Une légende photographique

Regeneration3