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28%OFFGeorge Perry - Jack Robinson on Show: Portraits 1958-72 - 9780956494221 - V9780956494221
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Jack Robinson on Show: Portraits 1958-72

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Description for Jack Robinson on Show: Portraits 1958-72 Hardcover. Jack Robinson was once acclaimed as one of the great fashion and portrait photographers of the 1960s and early 70s. Stunningly produced, this unique portfolio contains many images published for the first time, and showcases 150 unforgettable photographs of some of the most iconic actors, artists, fashion designers, and performers of that era. Editor(s): Perry, George. Num Pages: 192 pages, chiefly ports. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 275 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1496.

In a photographic career that spanned only seventeen years, Jack Robinson created an extraordinary body of work, that captured both the faces and the fashions of the 1960s - a defining period of twentieth-century popular arts. He regularly contributed "Vogue's Own Boutique" under the tutelage of Diana Vreeland, but in 1972 he suddenly abandoned his New York studio and spend the rest of his life in determined anonymity employed as a stained-glass designer in Memphis. When he died in 1997 at the age of 69, few people would have guessed that this reclusive artist had been at the centre of the ... Read more

This unique collection has been selected and edited by those to whom Jack entrusted his precious archive. Showcasing 150 of his most compelling portraits, with a reflective introduction by critic George Perry, and a foreword by Cybil Shepherd, this is a fitting tribute to a master photographer whose work resonates with the spirit of the time. 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palazzo Editions Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780956494221
SKU
V9780956494221
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About George Perry
Jack Robinson was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1928 and began his career as a photographer in 1950. He gave up photography in 1972 and died in 1997. His work is now housed and exhibited in the Robinson Archive and Gallery, Memphis, Tennnessee. George Perry is an author, broadcaster and former film editor.  Cybill ... Read more

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