Lionel Wendt - Ceylon - 2017

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Lionel Wendt's Ceylon presents English language photography in a hard cover first edition from 2017, with 224 pages and a focus on Sri Lanka's regional imagery.

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Sri Lankan photographer Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) chose an eclectic range of subjects: from sensual and homoerotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he employed modernist stylistic devices and experimental techniques. After his untimely death in 1944, his negatives were destroyed, but his prints resurfaced in the 1990s and are now part of several international private and museum collections.

Sri Lankan photographer Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) chose an eclectic range of subjects: from sensual and homoerotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he employed modernist stylistic devices and experimental techniques. After his untimely death in 1944, his negatives were destroyed, but his prints resurfaced in the 1990s and are now part of several international private and museum collections.

Details

Number of Books
1
Subject
Photography, Regional interest
Book Title
Ceylon
Author/ Illustrator
Lionel Wendt
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2017
Height
224 mm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
173 mm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Ideabooks
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
224
The NetherlandsVerified
Private

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