Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio

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Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio Details

Review "The photographs are in a striking square format, the product of a 1990 purchase [of a Hasselblad camera] that proved serendipitous. . . . Over the years, [Lambrecht] thought about creating a book of her Lichtenstein photographs, and in 2009 she decided to put together a proposal. 'That’s when I started going into the negatives' with greater purpose, she said; when she got the contract for her coming book, she continued to dig into her files and print what she called the 'latent images' of her negatives, which then 'came to life' The process has been 'a wonderful journey of rediscovering things' about Mr. Lichtenstein—who died in 1997—and her time in his studio." —The New York Times"Lambrecht took these pictures casually, over the course of several years . . . . whenever she looked down into the viewfinder lens of her Hasselblad camera, the change of perspective turned all the bustle and mess of the busy studio—the very stuff of Lichtenstein's creative process—into a discrete composition, a single sharp-edged image inside a frame." —Town & Country Read more About the Author Based in New York City and Bridgehampton, Laurie Lambrecht travels widely on photographic assignments and for her personal work. She is represented by the Drawing Room in East Hampton, Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston, and Rick Wester Fine Art in Manhattan. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including solo exhibitions at FotoFest in Houston and the Lishui Photo Festival in China; galleries in London, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York; and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts. Dorothy Lichtenstein is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.   Edward Robinson is associate curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read more

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As an artist myself, I'm alway curious about how other artists set up their studio. This book gives a beautiful view into how one of the greatest artists of the 20th century Roy Lichtenstein, created his iconic imagery that we all know and love. It reinforces how professional he was and why got such great results from his work. For people who have not seen a real Lichtenstein painting or have just seen flat catalogue reproductions, this is a perfect book to give them perspective, scale and texture of his work. Also for those non artists who perhaps don't understand the creative process, this book ads another dimension, that of an education when it comes to working environments for artists. But in the end it's great coffee table book well worth a browse which will leave you feeling relaxed and inspired.

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