DANIEL (Malcolm), PARRY (Eugenia), REFF (Theodore). - Lot 76

DANIEL (Malcolm), PARRY (Eugenia), REFF (Theodore). Edgar Degas, Photographer. With the collaboration of Sylvie Aubenas. Translated by William O. Desmond. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1999. Large quarto, publisher’s hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Catalog of the major exhibition organized jointly by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, devoted to a long-overlooked aspect of Edgar Degas’s work: his photography. The book catalogs and reproduces for the first time the complete known body of photographs taken by Degas between 1895 and 1896, a brief period marked by remarkable creative intensity. The authors place this body of work within the context of his paintings and drawings, demonstrating how photography informed his reflections on artificial light, framing, poses, and composition. Richly illustrated, the volume reproduces portraits of Mallarmé, Renoir, Jacques-Émile Blanche, and Maeterlinck, as well as numerous self-portraits, studies of dancers, nudes, and interior scenes. The photographs are consistently juxtaposed with the paintings, pastels, and drawings to which they relate, offering a fresh perspective on Degas’s artistic world. An important reference work, accompanied by scholarly essays by Malcolm Daniel, Eugenia Parry, Theodore Reff, and Sylvie Aubenas, who is today one of France’s leading specialists in 19th-century photography. Condition: very good copy. Dust jacket intact, showing very slight signs of wear. Interior in perfect condition.