New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955

Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2009.
ISBN: 9781590052617
Condition: Nr Fine
Hardcover
First Edition
12 x 13 inches , 88 pp , 50 four-color plates

Previously unknown and unpublished body of work by one of America’s earliest masters of color photography. Outerbridge built his extraordinary reputation by making virtuoso carbro-color prints of nudes and still lifes, mainly in the studio, during the 1930s. In the late 1940s and 1950s he took his camera to the streets, crossing the border between California and Mexico and photographing the people and places he found. In the tradition of such photographers as Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Anton Bruehl, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, all of whom made significant photographic forays into Mexico, Outerbridge ventured south in his 1949 black Cadillac, frequenting the seaport towns along the Baja peninsula. Shooting in bold, luminous Kodachrome, his photographs explore the quirkiness of 1950s leisure culture and examine the blending of two interwoven societies at a distinctive time in history. Item #8575

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New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955. Paul Outerbridge.