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Overview
Photographer Inge Morath and artist Saul Steinberg engaged in a unique collaboration in the years 1959 to 1963 by having friends and acquaintances don paper bags drawn with fantastic faces and then posing them for photographs. In a delightful series of individual and group portraits, otherwise respectable people have been implicated in their mischief. We don't know who they are, but we seem to know exactly who they are impersonating. Morath's direct, at-times deadpan style is the perfect counterpoint to Steinberg's whimsy. Together they have cast a little operetta of attitudes, postures, and mannerisms. And while her subjects preen, Morath has recorded the flights of fancy of a friendship.Editorials
Vanity Fair
...sequence of human cartoons...echoes of Klee and Ionesco, and a blast of Brubeck...collected in one volume, an homage to Steinberg....— October
In the late 1950s and early 1960s photographer Morath and New Yorker artist Steinberg collaborated on photos of friends who wore paper bag faces for the event. Their photos appear here for the first time in a fine series of portraits of various subjects and settings. Whimsical and recommended for art libraries.
Book Details
Published
October 26, 2000
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Viking Studio, 2000.
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780670894253