Man Ray's portrait of Peggy Guggenheim
By: Frederique van Reij
Contributors: Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
Series: Rijksmuseum studies in photography -- volume 16; Rijksmuseum studies in photography -- v. 16.
Publisher: Rijksmuseum
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9789491714641
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Portraits; Critique et interprétation; Collections de photographies; Photograph collections; Fashion photography; Portrait photography; Mode; Modefotografie; Portraits (Photographie); Photographie de mode; Porträtfotografie; Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
Description: In 1924 Man Ray took one of his most famous photographs: a portrait of the young, rich American heiress and later art collector Peggy Guggenheim. The Rijksmuseum holds one of the few original prints. This volume brings together for the first time all the known prints and variants of this portrait and discusses how the portrait came to be taken. Frederique van Reij also looks at the photograph in relation to the costume prints and fashion photographs of the period against the background of the history of fashion photography.
Notes: "Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund."

Includes bibliographical references.

English text translated from the Dutch manuscript.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Taco Dibbits; title: Introduction; title: The making of a portrait; title: Fashion and trends in the 1920s; title: A fascination with light and shadow.