Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit
Description
Classic portraits, New York scenes and more from the brilliant and indefatigable American photographer
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American photographer Ruth Orkin earned acclaim for her work as she combined her love for travel and her experience growing up in Hollywood into a practice that captured the cinematic elements of everyday life and revealed the humanity of the upper crust.The atmospheric photographs taken by Orkin in cities such as Florence, New York and London still shape the image of these metropolises today: her street scenes consistently offer penetrating insights into the personality of her human subjects as well as their environments. This unique quality also manifests in her celebrity portraits of figures such as Albert Einstein, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams and Lauren Bacall: though clearly posed, these photographs offer a certain level of candor that allows the viewer to connect with the sitters on a human level. She also pursued filmmaking with two successful features, Little Fugitive (1953) and Lovers and Lollipops (1955)--and she did all of this as one of the few female practitioners in the field.
Published on the occasion of what would have been the photographer's 100th birthday, this illustrated volume celebrates Orkin's life and career with an equally extensive and fascinating overview of this exceptional artist's oeuvre.
Ruth Orkin (1921-85) studied at Los Angeles City College. Working as a freelance photographer, she published in magazines such as Life, Look and Ladies' Home Journal. She was awarded an Oscar for the film Little Fugitive, which she made with her husband in 1953. A World Through My Window (1978) is her best-known book of photographs.
Product Details
Price
$48.00
$44.64
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Publish Date
September 21, 2021
Pages
240
Dimensions
10.6 X 10.7 X 0.9 inches | 3.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9783775750950
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Mary Engel is an award-winning healthcare writer who has worked for newspapers in California, Alaska, and New Mexico and as a science writer for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The editorials she wrote for the Los Angeles Times were part of a 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning series on mismanagement, malpractice, and racial injustice at a public hospital. She has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, a science journalism fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and a Salzburg Seminar Knight Media Fellow on multicultural healthcare in Salzburg, Austria. She lives in Seattle.