Femmes

1933

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Best known for his photomontage reproduced on the cover of Walter Benjamin's book One-Way Street (1928), Stone was closely associated with the New Objectivity movement of the 1920s in Germany. From 1924 to 1931, he operated a successful photographic studio in Berlin. He contributed photo reportage to many of the major illustrated magazines, including Uhu, Die Dame, and Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung and was celebrated for his innovative advertising work. In 1933 the French magazine Arts et Metiers Graphique published Femmes, a portfolio of Stone's studies of female nudes, as the first in a series of three planned portfolios on the human body. (The other two, Hommes and Adolescents, were never realized.) Stone's photographs, with their fragmented figures, angular compositions, and use of raking light, are superb examples of avant-garde photographic aesthetics in Europe between the world wars.

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Title: Femmes
Artist: Sasha Stone (Russian, Saint Petersburg 1895–1940 Perpignan, France)
Publisher: Arts et Métiers Graphiques
Date: 1933
Medium: Photogravures
Dimensions: Sheets: 12 3/16 × 9 11/16 in. (31 × 24.6 cm)
Overall: 12 3/8 × 10 × 3/8 in. (31.4 × 25.4 × 1 cm)
Classification: Portfolios
Credit Line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2018
Object Number: 2018.43a–v
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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