[Rarebooks] fs: Important 1933 French Nude Photo Exhibition

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Masclet, Daniel.  LA BEAUTE DE LA FEMME.  Album du Premier Salon 
International du nu Photographique Paris, 1933.

Paris; Daniel Masclet: 1933.

Daniel Masclet (1892-1969) was one of the most important figures in French 
photography of the 20th century, both as a photographer and as a critic and 
theorist. Masclet began his professional career as a celebrated cellist but 
after winning a gold medal for some of his photographs in the Revue 
Française de Photographie, he switched to photography and with the help of 
his wife, the model Francesca, became a leading portrait photographer and 
also experimented with still-lifes and urban landscapes. As a leading 
critic he wrote several books on photography as well as numerous journal 
articles, and was curator for the first retrospectives of the work of 
Berenice Abbott and Edward Weston. This important exhibition of female 
nudes is a prime example of his work as critic and promoter in the 1930s, 
and includes the work of Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Maurice Beck, Drtikol, Jean 
Moral, Bruno Schultz, and many more. A new biography of Masclet was 
published in France in 2001, and there was a retrospective exhibition 
devoted to his life and work recently at the Musee Nicephore Niepce.

Card covers with a decorative cord tie.  9.5"x12.5", 4 pages plus 96 b/w 
plates; white covers with black lettering; covers with moderate rubbing and 
some soil, tips just a bit thumbed, but a nice copy overall.  [04678]  $600.00

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