Overview
Biographical research into the subjects' lives led KlĆ¼ver to focus on the summer of 1916 as the likely time the photos were taken. He then measured buildings and plotted angles and lengths of shadows in the photographs to narrow the time frame to a spread of three weeks. Further investigation eventually allowed KlĆ¼ver to identify the photographer as Jean Cocteau and to determine the day that Cocteau had taken the photographs: August 12, 1916. A computer printout of the sun's positions on that date, obtained from the Bureau des Longitudes, together with the length of the shadows, enabled Klver to calculate the time of day of each photograph, and thus to put them in proper sequence.
In a tour de force of art historical research, KlĆ¼ver then reconstructed a scenario of the events of the four hours depicted in the photographs. With evocative attention to detailānoting when Picasso is no longer carrying an envelope or Max Jacob has acquired a decoration in his lapelāKlĆ¼ver recreates a single afternoon in the lives of Picasso and friends, a group of remarkable people in early twentieth-century Paris.
Besides the central "portfolio" of photographs by Cocteau, the book contains additional photographs and drawings, short biographies of all the subjects, and a historical section on the events and activities in the Paris art world at the time.
This book title, A Day with Picasso, ISBN: 9780262611473, by Billy Kluver, published by MIT Press (February 18, 1999) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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