Hubert de Givenchy (Documents Français) (French Edition)

Hubert de Givenchy, at the Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais, France

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Made up of 52, negatives and 20, prints, this source has made it possible to question the oeuvre and the place that the photographer really occupies in history. Paradoxically, very little research has been carried out into the work and career of this artist. Her first works were seen in the salons and publications of the early s, but it was essentially during the s and 40s that Laure Albin Guillot, artist, professional and institutional figure, dominated the photographic arena.

As an independent photographer, she practised several genres, including portraiture, the nude, landscape, still life and, to a lesser degree, documentary photography. Technically unrivalled, she raised the practice to a certain elitism. A photographer of her epoch, she used the new means of distribution of the image to provide illustrations and advertising images for the press and publishing industry.

Laure Albin Guillot began her career in the early s with portraits and fashion photography. Already, her trademark was elegance, her method was quite systematic and she used various artifices: She accepted being compared to the pictorialists. In complete contrast to the importance of character in the portrait, its reduction to a visual form makes the model into a collection of lines, the face is pushed into the corners, almost rubbed out.

Givenchy, Hubert de 1927-2018

Laure Albin Guillot did not practise a fragmented language, she proposed fluid forms that appear simple but in reality are highly worked. The reference to statuary is assumed and provides a wide variety of uses for the photographs, each containing several. Alongside the artists and craftsmen, Laure Albin Guillot exhibited an exceptional series of portraits of decorators. She herself made some kakemonos starting from stylised photographs and, inspired by Japanisation, she had some of her photographs inserted into lacquered wood as screens or fire guards.

This much publicised publication triggered a series of glowing articles that enthused on the fusion between science and art.

Laure Albin Guillot Hubert de Givenchy | Art Blart

The micrographs were declined in wallpaper, silks, bindings and assorted objects. This book is one of the rare theoretical works written by a French photographer between the wars.

The rediscovery of a 20th century genius

At the time she was known for her portraits, her decorative proposals, her fashion photographs and advertising images. Laure Albin Guillot was fully aware of the media and commercial stakes developing around the cinema, radio and the illustrated press. Based on her own experience, she tried with this book to define the role that photography could play in the world of advertising that was taking shape. From the end of the s, she carried out a large number of adver-tising illustrations.

A large proportion of her work concerned luxury products such as fine watchmaking, jewellery or fashion.

Between and , she illustrated no less than eleven books of varying type and subject: It was with a real strategy of promoting her work that the photographer undertook these works, which were mostly sold by subscription. Thus, the large-format prints exhibited in this section showing roads or landscapes were probably destinated to appear in albums finally not published.

Laure Albin Guillot Nude Study c.

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