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Becoming Van Leo / Karl Bassil, in collaboration with Negar Azimi and Katia Boyadjian.
Fine Arts Library TR680 .B37 2021 3 v. + 8 leaves of plates in phase box
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bassil, Karl, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Van Leo.
- Photographers--Egypt--Biography.
- Photographers.
- Portrait photography.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes (609 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm + 8 leaves of plates
- Place of Publication:
- Beirut, Lebanon : Arab Image Foundation ; Berlin : Archive Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Becoming Van Leo is a study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer. Born in 1921, Leon Boyadjian would come to be known as Van Leo, one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world." --sharjahart.org
- Contents:
- I. Portraiture
- II. Self-portraiture
- III. Self
- Foreword
- "The mute supplications of Van Leo" / François Cheval
- Family album
- Education
- Angelo studio
- Life during wartime (This ain't no is...)
- Metro studio
- Becoming Van Leo
- Sweet nothings
- Revolution (count me out)
- Ragaa Serag
- Mislocated
- From disused to quaint
- "Looking for Van Leo" / Negar Azimi
- "The obscured photography of Wast El Balad" / Laura Baladi
- Exposure
- January 2002 / photographs by Katia Boyadjian and Daniel Juré
- "(Un)reason" / Karl Bassil
- Acknowledgements
- Publications
- Films
- Exhibitions
- Articles
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783948212803
- 3948212805
- OCLC:
- 1311351626
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