Polak painter
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by Carolyn Kinder Carr
184 pages, 23 color, 74 duotone photographs
Published by Smithsonian Institution Press,
ISBN 1-56098-809-6
Hardcover: $39.95
During the summer and early fall of 1950, as Jackson Pollock moved about the huge canvases on the floor of his Long Island studio, defining their surfaces with dripped and thrown paint, a young photographer named Hans Namuth documented the artist at work. The best of his nearly five hundred photographs, first published in Portfolio and Art News magazines, enhanced public understanding of Pollock's paintings and began for Namuth a forty-year career of photographing America's leading painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and architects.
Accompanied by a biographical essay by Carolyn Kinder Carr, this collection of seventy-five of Hans Namuth's photographic portraits, taken between 1950 and 1989, shows how his friendships with his often reclusive subjects and his determination to capture the essence of each artist's style resulted in revealing portraits of such notable painters as Willem and El
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On Saturday, July 1, 1950, Hans Namuth, who had rented a house for the summer in Water Mill, Long Island, attended an opening in East Hampton at Guild Hall, a small community arts center. Jackson Pollock was among those featured in the group show devoted to the work of artists living in the region, and he was present at the reception. Namuth had seen Pollock's work at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City the previous November. He did not particularly care for Pollock's painting, but Alexey Brodovitch, his teacher at the Design Laboratory at the New School for Social Research and art director of Harper's Bazaar, had persuaded him that Pollock was an important artist. That hot afternoon Namuth introduced himself to Pollock and asked if he could come to his studio in the nearby town of Springs and photograph him. Pollock's wife, painter Lee Krasner, aware of the importance of media attention, encouraged Pollock to work with Namuth. From July through early October 1950, Namuth took more than five hundred photographs of the artist. As Pollock danced about his huge canvases an
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Hans Namuth
American photographer (1915–1990)
Hans Namuth | |
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| Born | (1915-03-17)March 17, 1915 Essen, Germany |
| Died | October 13, 1990(1990-10-13) (aged 75) East Hampton, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Hans Namuth (March 17, 1915 – October 13, 1990)[1] was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionistJackson Pollock. His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increased Pollock's fame and recognition and led to a greater understanding of his work and techniques. Namuth used his outgoing personality and persistence to photograph many important artistic figures at work in their studios.
Namuth photographed many other painters such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark Rothko and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Louis Kahn. Namuth focused on his rapport with his subjects, getting many reclusive figures such as Clyfford Still to agree to be photographed. Namuth's work not only captured his subjects in their studios wi
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