Author: VAN LEO - Karl BASSIL, Negar AZIMI & Katia BOYADJIAN
Title: Becoming Van Leo - I - Portraiture / II - Self-Portraiture / III - Self - [+ folder with 8 loose plates] - [New].
Description: Lebanon / Berlin, Arab Image Foundation / Archive Books, 2021. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. 610 pp. Three softcovers + folder with 8 loose plates in slipcase. Profusely illustrated in b/w and colour. - Becoming Van Leo (1921-2002) is a study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer. Born in 1921, Leon Boyadjian would come to be known as Van Leo, one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world. Van Leo left behind him a 60-year body of portraiture and self-portraiture work, as well as professional and personal documents. Drawing on this abundant archive from the collections of the AIF - its most iconic one - and the American University in Cairo, in addition to accounts of people who knew him, the publication intricately narrates the story of the photographer and the man, contemplates the complex practice of commemoration, and reflects on the task of the archivist, the curator, the designer, and the author at large. - New copy

Keywords: portretfotografie / portrait photography 9783948212803


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