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Marcel Duchamp at the age of 85 : an incunabulum of conceptual photography / Herbert Molderings ; translated by John Brogden ; with a text by Frederick Kiesler.
- Title
- Marcel Duchamp at the age of 85 : an incunabulum of conceptual photography / Herbert Molderings ; translated by John Brogden ; with a text by Frederick Kiesler.
- Author
- Molderings, Herbert.
- Publication
- Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013.
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- Description
- 111 pages : illustrations, portrait; 20 cm
- Summary
- In 1945, Marcel Duchamp published a photographic self-portrait in the American magazine View which depicted him - according to the caption - "at the age of 85." In reality he was, at the time, only 58 years old. In other words, the camera was being used as a "time machine," but not, as customary, to capture a present moment, but rather to look into the future. Until now, the circumstances surrounding this early instance of the "staged photograph" were unknown. This book includes a recently discovered script by Friedrich Kiesler, published here for the first time, in which Kiesler describes in full detail how he assisted his friend Duchamp in styling himself as a senile artist-philosopher for the lens of New York photographer Percy Rainford. The well-known Duchamp expert Herbert Molderings interprets Duchamp's self-portrait as an innovative, conceptual use of photography.
- Alternative Title
- Marcel Duchamp at the age of eighty-five
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-95).
- ISBN
- 9783863353322 (English edition : pbk.)
- 3863353323 (English edition : pbk.)
- OCLC
- 861176661
- SCSB-10310237
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library