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Rodney Smith: A Leap Of Faith
J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN13:
9781606068465
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Elegant, charming, and stunningly beautiful, Rodney Smiths fashion photography is a delightful revelation. I would hope that I am one of a kind. Rodney Smith Mystery and manners, romance and funthe sophisticated compositions and stylish characters in the extraordinary pictures of fashion photographer Rodney Smith (19472016) exist in a timeless world of his imagination. Born in New York City, Smith started out as a photo-essayist, turned to portrait photography, and found his niche, and greatest success, in fashion photography. Inspired by W. Eugene Smith, taught by Walker Evans, and devoted to the techniques of Ansel Adams, Smith was driven by the dual ideals of technical mastery and pure beauty. This lavish volume features nearly two hundred reproductions of Smiths imagesmany that have never before been publishedand weaves together a biocritical essay by Getty Museum curator Paul Martineau and a technical assessment of Smiths production by the Center for Creative Photographys chief curator, Rebecca A. Senf. It maps Smiths creative trajectoryincluding his introduction to photography, early personal projects, teaching, commissioned pieces, and career in fashionand provides insight into his personal life and character, contextualizing his work and creative tendencies within his privileged but lonely upbringing and complex emotional and psychological makeup. Rodney Smith is the definitive record of the lifes work and worldview of a truly original artist.
- | Author: Paul Martineau
- | Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
- | Publication Date: May 16, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 248 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1606068466
- | ISBN-13: 9781606068465
- Author:
- Paul Martineau
- Publisher:
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Publication Date:
- May 16, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 248 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1606068466
- ISBN-13:
- 9781606068465