REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS - Studio Harcourt. - Lot 249

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS - Studio Harcourt. 100 Photos of Stars for Press Freedom. Paris, Reporters Without Borders, 2006. In-4, paperback. An album published by Reporters Without Borders in partnership with Studio Harcourt, featuring one hundred portraits of figures from the worlds of film, music, theater, literature, and the arts, taken by the famous Parisian studio since the 1930s. The book is enriched with essays on the history of Studio Harcourt, the evolution of celebrity portraiture, and the defense of press freedom. A veritable pantheon of French photography, Studio Harcourt is represented here through portraits that have become iconic for several generations of stars, reproduced in the characteristic quality of the studio’s famous black-and-white prints. Like all books in the Reporters Without Borders collection, this album was published to benefit the organization’s efforts to promote press freedom worldwide. Very good condition.