Paris Living Rooms
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2843233690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 114 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Original coverage, second in series" according to Mirdza Berzins. This book is an original. Ms. Nabokov uses special film (purposely chosen, from a lot of film no longer available) to document various creative people's living rooms--people who are rich and some who are not so rich. She did a similar book called "New York Living Rooms." The rooms have no people in t. limited appeal Amy Henley When you found this book, I hope you were not expecting beautiful photos of French Country or Classic styles of interior design. Instead, this book is the equivalent of a bad art house movie. It has out-of-focus pictures of grungy looking rooms taken at unflattering camera angles in bad lighting. If
Her work has been widely exhibited in france, Germany, and the United States. Dominique Nabokov started as an assistant to the photographer Patrick Demarchelier in 1980. Andree Putman (introduction) is a renowned product and interior designer. . Her photographs have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Artforum, Vogue, Interview, and The New York Review of Books. She is the
Photographer Dominique Nabokov has documented the living rooms of well-known Parisians--artists, writers, designers, intellectuals and the occasional celebrity. The result is a series of fascinatingly deadpan photos that puts an ironic slant on the celebrity interior genre. These peeks into the living rooms of celebrated Parisians will provide hours of voyeuristic pleasure. The book includes more than seventy living rooms of such diverse Parisians as Jean-Paul Goude, Andree Putman, Christian Liaigre, Gerard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Carine Roitfeld, Loulou de la Falaise and Jacques Grange, to name a few.. The rooms vary widely from one another in terms of formality and decor, but they are all equalized under the gaze of Nabokov's camera. Each room is shot simply as it happened to appear on that particular day, without any people. Using discontinued Polaroid Colorgraph type 691 film (which provides a full-color transparency in four minutes),
"These living room photographs are unaffected snapshots, portraits without the gloss."