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A collection of photographs of Pablo Picasso's life and art, taken by his friend, award-winning photojournalist David Douglas Duncan.
David Douglas Duncan presents a photographic record of the life which Picasso and Jacqueline shared together in their home. The author was a friend of the couple and records the time he spent with them, from his first visit in 1956 to Picasso's death in 1973 and afterwards, until Jacqueline herself died in 1986. He portrays their everyday domestic life, their leisure time and intimate moments and also shows Picasso at work on his paintings. Duncan recalls "The three of us enjoyed a life so close and casual and natural that I was able to use my cameras as though neither they nor I existed".;Duncan is a well-known photographer and has written over 16 books.
One spring morning in 1957, photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent subject Pablo Picasso, at the artist’s home near Cannes. Alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographer’s pet dachshund, Lump. When they arrived at Picasso’s Villa La Californie, Lump decided that he had found paradise on earth, and that he would move in with Picasso, whether the artist welcomed him or not. This is the background for a book that offers an uncommonly sensitive portrait of Picasso. Lump was immortalized in a Picasso portrait painted on a plate the day they met, but that was just the beginning. In a suite of forty-five paintings reinterpreting Ve...
This is a collection of photos taken between the Forties and the Seventies and is a panorama of ordinary people's lives across the Muslim world.
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Chronicles the heartwarming story of the relationship between renowned artist Pablo Picasso and his pet dachshund, Lump, a mutual love affair that developed when the dog, originally belonging to veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, decided to take up permanent residence with Picasso and was immortalized in a series of remarkable paintings. 20,000 first printing.
An affectionate, heart-warming account of a great dog's first years. Duncan says, "after a lifetime of documenting wars, historic treasures . . . and many of man's adventures in our time, perhaps this simple story of discovery and love is my favorite". 82 duotone photos.
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Information: 1st American ed.