Jeanloup Sieff - Photographien - 1983

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Enjoy another highly personal selection of books dedicated to eroticism in all its beautiful facets - drawn from my private library and from various acquisitions over the past years.

WONDERFUL RETROSPECTIVE BOOK by famous French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) -
in BREATH-TAKING PRINTING.

A large-format overview of the French fashion and art photographer's work spanning from 1958 to 1981.
Showing portraits, nudes, melancholic landscapes, and surrealist-tinged photographs, all featuring Sieff's signature wide-angle and black-and-white style.

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

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"Jeanloup Sieff was born in Paris to Polish parents. He was a photography student of Gertrude Fehr. He is famous for his portraits of politicians, famous artists, landscapes, as well as for his nudes and use of wide-angle lens and visible dodging marks. He worked mainly in black and white and in fashion. He died in Paris. His daughter, Sonia Sieff, is also a photographer."
(Wikipedia)

Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 1983. First German edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 245 x 308 mm. 200 pages. 184 photos. Photos: Jeanloup Sieff. With pages diary-forword by Jeanloup Sieff. Translation into German: Rudolf Kimmig. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; pages smell of dampness and the cellar, no other remarkable flaws or defects. Book outside fresh (protected by the jacket); edges darkened and a bit foxed at the top. Dustjacket fresh fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; very light trace of use only. Overall fine condition.

Wonderful photobook by legendary French photographer Jeanloup Sieff - with original dustjacket.
Originally published in French language one year before (1982).

"Born in Paris to Polish parents Jeanloup Sieff began shooting fashion photography in 1956 and joined the Magnum Agency in 1958, which enabled him to travel extensively. Settling in New York for much of the sixties he worked for Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle, photographing celebrities such as Jane Birkin, Yves Saint-Laurent, Rudolf Nureyev and Alfred Hitchcock amongst others. Sieff won numerous prizes including the Prix Niepce, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in Paris in 1981 and the Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1992, and his work is housed in many private and international collections.
Sieff is heralded as one of the great international photographic talents of the last half-century and has left an undeniable imprint on his generation. Prolific in many fields, the variety of his imagery highlights his broad artistry, ranging from fashion, nudes, landscape and portraiture.
With great tenacity, Sieff pursued a personal and highly effective signature style, soaked in playful imagination with a touch of irony. Seldom working in colour he favoured the discipline of black and white, often using to his advantage the spatial distortion of wide-angle lenses, the dramatic potential of shadow and exploitation of tone.
(Hamilton's gallery)