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The Essential Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1972
The Essential Herbert List Photographs 19301972 Author:Matthias Harder, Max Scheler Herbert List s photography has become part of the — classical canon of 20th-century pictorial art. By their — metaphysical and visual presence, his pictures are — as familiar to us and as influential as de Chirico s — visions are in painting. — This monograph on List s oeuvre presents for the — first time all phases of his creativity: the early fotogr... more »afia
metafisica; his Greece photographs blending
Antiquity, Mediterranean light and Eros in visions
of Classical Hellas; his sensitive homoerotic pictures;
his artist portraits of the 40s through to the 60s;
and the human interest photography of his late work.
Essays by noted authors explore List s particular interests
and the photo-historic context of his oeuvre.
A selection of List s own writings, a comprehensive
chronology, a bibliography, a list of exhibitions,
and a list of publications complete this lavish volume in