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Fragile beauty : photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish collection / edited by Duncan Forbes, Newell Harbin and Lydia Caston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor-Johnson, Sam, 1967- author of afterword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- John, Elton--Photograph collections.
- John, Elton.
- Furnish, David--Photograph collections.
- Furnish, David.
- John, Elton--Interviews.
- Furnish, David--Interviews.
- Photography--Private collections--Exhibitions.
- Photography.
- Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalog
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Distribution:
- [New York, NY?] : Distributed in North America by Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS
- Place of Publication:
- London : V&A Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Over the past three decades, Sir Elton John and David Furnish have carefully built an unrivaled collection of photography. Remarkable in its range and depth, it's a who's who of photographer and subject ranging across disciplines from fashion and film to landscape and reportage. Compiled by Duncan Forbes, head of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, this book presents 150 of the most important photographs from 1950 to today from artists including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Ai Weiwei." -- publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Curators' preface / Duncan Forbes, Newell Harbin and Lydia Caston
- Sir Elton John and David Furnish / interviewed by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament
- Fashion / Lydia Caston
- Stars of stage, screen and studio / Newell Harbin
- Desire / Daniel Slater
- Reportage / Duncan Forbes
- The American scene / Newell Harbin
- Fragile beauty / Duncan Forbes
- Constructed images / Lydia Caston
- Towards abstraction / Duncan Forbes
- Collecting now / Duncan Forbes
- Afterword / Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Author biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Exhibited works
- Image credits.
- Notes:
- First published by the V&A Publishing to accompany the exhibition Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish collection on view from 18 May 2024 to 5 January 2025 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London.
- ISBN:
- 9781838510466
- 183851046X
- OCLC:
- 1393300572
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