Studies of the Female Nude
2005
£60.00
Rare
First edition of Studies of the Female Nude by Andre de Dienes. Limited to 4,000 casebound copies. Book is in fine condition.
About
During 1945 Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) photographed a young model named Norma Jean. His subsequent five-year working relation with the woman who became Marilyn Monroe is the beginning of de Dienes's career in Hollywood. He photographed celebrities, and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South. But his first love in photography was the female nude. Selected from the archives of his estate are seventy-five of the finest images printed by the artist. These prints are a time capsule of half-century old interpretations of female beauty.