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Becoming Van Leo

Title
Becoming Van Leo / Karl Bassil, in collaboration with Negar Azimi and Katia Boyadjian ; [essays by François Cheval, Negar Azimi, Lara Baladi and Karl Bassil ; photographs from the Arab Image Foundation collections [and many others] ; interviews by Negar Azimi, various locations, 2009-2015 [and many others], [and other interviews by many others]].
Author
Bassil, Karl
Publication
  • Beirut, Lebanon : Arab Image Foundation ; Berlin, Germany : Archive Books, 2021.
  • Berlin, Germany : Distribution, orders@archivebooks.org, Archive Books
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Van Leo
  • Azimi, Negar
  • Boyadjian, Katia
  • Cheval, François
  • Baladi, Lara, 1969-
  • Mounzer, Lina
  • Fondation Arabe pour l'image, publisher.
  • American University in Cairo, sponsoring body.
Description
3 volumes (609 pages), 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded) : illustrations (some color) ; facsimiles (some color), portraits (some color); 30 cm +
Summary
"Becoming Van Leo is a study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer. Born in 1921, Leon Boyadjian would come to be known as Van Leo, one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world." --sharjahart.org
Uniform Title
  • Portraiture.
  • Self-portraiture.
  • Self.
Subject
  • Van Leo > Criticism and interpretation
  • Van Leo > Interviews
  • Van Leo
  • Photographers > Egypt > Biography
  • Portrait photography
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Glamour photography
  • Photography, Close-up
  • Photography of the nude
  • Photographers > Egypt
  • Photographers
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Egypt
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Issued in a slipcase (31 x 24 x 6 cm); Each volume contains two folded leaves of plates (in inside the front cover flap and back cover flap), the six leaves of plates consists of facsimiled images of studio notes, facsimiled images of "letters and other handwritten documents" and biographical timeline of "Leon Boyadjian", each plate measurement: 30 x 45 cm.
  • Eight loose leaves of photographic plates in thin wrapping paper folder.
  • "English translation, from Arabic: Lina Mounzer [and 3 others], from Armenian: Rupen Janbazian, from French: Sarah Morris [and 1 other], from German: Julia Gyemant ; digitization of the photographs: Mind the gap, Arab Image Foundation [and others] ; Typography, Foundry Form Sans and Serif (London: The Foundry) [and others]"--Page 10, volume 1.
  • "Published in Lebanon in 2021 by the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut) and Archive Books (Berlin), in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund and Sharjah Art Foundation, and with the cooperation of the American University in Cairo."--Page [3] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-609) and index.
Awards (note)
  • Shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards, 2022.
Contents
  • I. Portraiture -- II. Self-portraiture -- III. Self.
  • Foreword -- "The mute supplications of Van Leo" / François Cheval -- Family album -- Education -- Angelo studio -- Life during wartime (This ain't no is...) -- Metro studio -- Becoming Van Leo -- Sweet nothings -- Revolution (count me out) -- Ragaa Serag -- Mislocated -- From disused to quaint -- "Looking for Van Leo" / Negar Azimi -- "The obscured photography of Wast El Balad" / Laura Baladi -- Exposure -- January 2002 / photographs by Katia Boyadjian and Daniel Juré -- "(Un)reason" / Karl Bassil -- Acknowledgements -- Publications -- Films -- Exhibitions -- Articles -- Index.
Call Number
JQG 23-794
ISBN
  • 9783948212803
  • 3948212805
OCLC
1311351626
Author
Bassil, Karl, author.
Title
Becoming Van Leo / Karl Bassil, in collaboration with Negar Azimi and Katia Boyadjian ; [essays by François Cheval, Negar Azimi, Lara Baladi and Karl Bassil ; photographs from the Arab Image Foundation collections [and many others] ; interviews by Negar Azimi, various locations, 2009-2015 [and many others], [and other interviews by many others]].
Publisher
Beirut, Lebanon : Arab Image Foundation ; Berlin, Germany : Archive Books, 2021.
Distributor
Berlin, Germany : Distribution, orders@archivebooks.org, Archive Books
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-609) and index.
Awards
Shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards, 2022.
Added Author
Van Leo, photographer, interviewee.
Azimi, Negar, contributor, interviewer.
Boyadjian, Katia, contributor.
Cheval, François, contributor.
Baladi, Lara, 1969- contributor.
Mounzer, Lina, translator.
Fondation Arabe pour l'image, publisher.
American University in Cairo, sponsoring body.
Added Title
Container of (work): Portraiture.
Container of (work): Self-portraiture.
Container of (work): Self.
Research Call Number
JQG 23-794
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