SPRINGS, Alice Portraits recents Paris, Audioviseul, 1988
Small 8vo. Original green cloth bound boards with rectangular cut out through front cover and front fly leaf to reveal the artists name; highly illustrated photographs by Alice Springs; unpaginated; vague rubbing to bottom of spine; otherwise near fine copy.
Coridally inscribed and signed by Alice Springs to a cetain 'Louis' dated 1988 in French
Perpetually overshadowed by her influential husband, Helmut Newton, Alice Springs was resonsible for her own beautiful body of work. Having visited the house of Jean Seborg, June Brown was asked to pinpoint a point on a map blindly and here landed on her iconic pseudonym- a town in Northern Australia. Urban myth tells the tale of the genesis of her passion; bed ridden with flu, Helmut Newton was unable to attend shooting for an advertisement for Gitanes cigarettes- subsequently she went on his behalf and never looked back. She was revered for her alternative depictions of celebirty figures of the time including Agnes Varda, William Burroughs and Vivienne Westwood to name a few. "Alice Springs does not try to flush out some hidden secret of the facial features" writes Michael Nuridsany in the introduction to this scarce exhibition catalogue, "The clothes, the atittudes, participate in the comedy of appearances". The intimate black and white portraits in this collection are as varied as Dennis Hopper, Christian and Francoise LaCroix and Juliet Man Ray.
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