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About US-American photographer, Paul OUTERBRIDGE (1896-1958)
Paul OUTERBRIDGE was a designer and illustrator before deciding to take up photography in the early 1920s. In 1925, he went to Paris to work for French 'Vogue' and soon became a friend of Picasso, Man RAY, Duchamp and Stravinsky. His fashion and object photographs date from this period, which show him to be a perfectionist with the highest technical and aesthetic standards and the true representative of cubist-abstract photography. Around 1930, in search of new and exciting challenges, he turned to color photography, in particular the development of the complicated and elaborate 'Carbro-Color' process. With the help of sophisticated techniques and fueled by an iconoclastic imagination, he created his series of erotic portraits of women, whose fetishistic character is unmistakable. The disturbing realism of these color photographs caused museum directors, critics and publishers to distance themselves from his work.
Photo books by and with works by Paul OUTERBRIDGE
- 'Photographs' (1993); 'Paul Outerbridge. 1896-1958' (1999); 'Command Performance' (2009); 'Paul Outerbridge' (2017);