Description: PHOTOGRAPHING IN COLOR by Paul Outerbridge 1940 Random House First Edition 204 pages and 15 tipped in color plates, a Color chart fold out, and 22 black and white text images Paul Outerbridge: PHOTOGRAPHING IN COLOR. New York: A U. S. Camera Book/Random House, 1940. First edition. Quarto. Gray cloth decorated in black. 204 pp. Tipped in color frontispiece and 14 tipped in color plates. 22 black and white text images. Color chart fold out. Binding cloth frayed and lightly chewed at spine heel.”Photography Collections/Humanities Research Center/University of Texas” rubber stamp to front free endpaper. Color plates with various stages of offsetting to facing pages. Fold out lightly creased. A very good copy. 8.75 x 12 hardcover book with 204 pages and 15 tipped in color plates, a Color chart fold out, and 22 black and white text images. Classic work on the art of color photography by one of the master's of the subject. A remarkable volume, covering cameras, equipment, lighting, exposures, transparencies, darkroom techniques and printing. Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (1896 - 1958) was an American photographer noted for early use and experiments in color photography. Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of color photography, and an artist who created erotic nudes photographs that could not be exhibited in his lifetime. Outerbridge, while still in his teens, worked as an illustrator and theatrical designer designing stage settings and lighting schemes. After an accident caused his discharge from the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service, in 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army where he did his first photography work. In 1921, Outerbridge enrolled in the Clarence H. White school of photography at Columbia University. Within a year his work began being reproduced in Vanity Fair and Vogue magazine. In London, in 1925, the Royal Photographic Society invited Outerbridge to exhibit in a one-man show. Outerbridge then traveled to Paris and became friends with surrealist artists, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Berenice Abbott. In Paris, Outerbridge did a layout for the French Vogue magazine, met and worked with Edward Steichen, and built the largest, most completely equipped advertising photography studio of the times. In 1929, 12 of Outerbridge's photographs were included in the prestigious, German Film und Foto exhibition. Returning to New York in 1929, Outerbridge opened a studio doing commercial and artistic work and began writing a monthly column on color photography for the U.S. Camera Magazine. Outerbridge became known for the high quality of his color illustrations, which were done in those years by means of an extremely complex tri-color carbro process. In 1937, Outerbridge's photographs were included in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art and, in 1940, Outerbridge published his seminal book, Photographing in Color, using high quality illustrations to explain his techniques. A scandal over his erotic photography, led to Outerbridge retiring as a commercial photographer and moving to Hollywood in 1943. Despite the controversy, Outerbridge continued to contribute photo stories to magazines and write his monthly column. In 1945, he married fashion designer Lois Weir and worked in their joint fashion company, Lois-Paul Originals. He died of lung cancer in 1958. One year after his death, the Smithsonian Institution staged a one-man show of Outerbridge's photographs. Although his reputation has faded, revivals of Outerbridge's photography in 1970s and 1990s has periodically brought him into contemporary public knowledge. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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