Author: Philip Brookman

Publisher/Date: Taschen, 2006, ISBN 9783822825921

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket, 280 pages

Description: Some of the greatest thinkers, leaders, authors, actors, artists, dancers, musicians, and designers of the past century sat before Arnold Newman’s lens, and he had an uncanny ability to bring out their character in a single image, often placing his subjects in settings that suggested their contributions. Pablo Picasso and Alfred Stieglitz, Lillian Hellman and Langston Hughes, Igor Stravinsky and George Harrison, Jonas Salk and Stephen Jay Gould, David Ben-Gurion and John F. Kennedy all were captured in images created for Life, Look, Fortune, and The New Yorker. Newman treated still life, abstract, and social photographs much the same way-each communicates a sense of essence from the subject. This overview of his career is a multifaceted tour of 20th-century culture in more than 200 black and white and color images.