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Portraits in lace : Breton Women

Title

Portraits in lace : Breton Women / Charles Fréger ; foreword by Marie Darrieussecq ; text by Yann Guesdon.

Author

Fréger, Charles

Publication

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2015.
©2015

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Description

251 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Here is a unique illustrated study of a centuries-old costume tradition that continues to thrive in Brittany today. Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive. Each costume and headdress may indicate a wearr's village, as well as age or status. They are worn for celebrations of a marriage, birth, or a local saint's day, or to mark a period of mourning. Against a translucent gauze backdrop, young girls, women both married and unmarried, mothers, sisters and grandmothers pose in costume for these photographic portraits. Over fifty headdresses are introduced and described in a separate reference section, accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations. Fréger's exceptional photographs demonstrate a wealth of pride and personal expression that make this book a unique testament to a living tradition.

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Genre/Form

Plaatwerken (vorm)

ISBN

9780500517994
0500517991

LCCN

2015931898
40025246052

OCLC

ocn904541927
904541927
SCSB-1830302

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library