Lionel Wendt
Subtitle: Ceylon
By: texts, Nicky van Banning, Shanay Jhaveri, Stephan Sanders
Contributors: Huis Marseille (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Fw:Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Amsterdam?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789490119492
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Portrait photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: Ceylon
Description: Sri Lankan photographer Lionel Wendt's (1900-1944) choice of subject was eclectic: from sensual and homo-erotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he used modernistic stylistic devices and experimental techniques. After his premature death in 1944 his negatives were destroyed, but his prints resurfaced in the 1990s, and are now part of several international private and museums collections. This year Wendt's work will be exhibited at Documenta in Athens, and a large scale retrospective will take place in the summer of 2017 at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition "Lionel Wendt/Ceylon" held June 10-September 3, 2017 at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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