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Face: Shape and Angle: Helen Muspratt, Photographer - Softcover

Sutcliffe, Jessica

 
9781526100849: Face: Shape and Angle: Helen Muspratt, Photographer
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526100843 ISBN 13: 9781526100849
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres. In partnership with Lettice Ramsey she made portraits of many notable figures of the 1930s in the fields of science and culture. Her experimental photography, using techniques such as solarisation and multiple exposure, bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller.

This book reproduces some of Helen Muspratt's most important photographic images, including documentary records of the Soviet Union and the Welsh valleys. The accompanying text by Jessica Sutcliffe is an intimate and revealing memoir of her mother that offers a fascinating insight into her life, work and politics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jessica Sutcliffe is an architect specialising in historic buildings. She is Helen Muspratt's daughter and the owner of her archive

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Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres. In partnership with Lettice Ramsey she made portraits of many notable figures of the 1930s in the fields of science and culture. Her experimental photography using techniques such as solarisation and multiple exposure bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller. And her political convictions led her to produce important documentary records of the Soviet Union and of the desperate situation of the unemployed in the Welsh valleys. Critical to her work was a preoccupation with the face - her attention to the 'shape and angle' was what made her an eminent portrait photographer.

This book reproduces some of Helen Muspratt's most important photographic images, showing all the various facets of her practice. The accompanying text by Jessica Sutcliffe is an intimate and revealing memoir of her mother which offers a fascinating insight into her life, work and politics.

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Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres. In partnership with Lettice Ramsey she made portraits of many notable figures of the 1930s in the fields of science and culture. Her experimental photography using techniques such as solarisation and multiple exposure bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller. And her political convictions led her to produce important documentary records of the Soviet Union and of the desperate situation of the unemployed in the Welsh valleys. Critical to her work was a preoccupation with the face - her attention to the 'shape and angle' was what made her an eminent portrait photographer. This book reproduces some of Helen Muspratt's most important photographic images, showing all the various facets of her practice. The accompanying text by Jessica Sutcliffe is an intimate and revealing memoir of her mother which offers a fascinating insight into her life, work and politics.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526100843
ISBN 13 
9781526100849
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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