« Le monde d’André Ostier. Photographe du Tout-Paris »(The world of André Ostier.Photographer of the Parisian Elite) has been published by Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo. The book is presented as follows by the publisher.
Anyone interested in artistic life, the evolution of fashion, and more broadly, social and high society life in the 1940s and 1950s has undoubtedly come across the name and work of André Ostier.
An essential photographer of French high society and artists, he was a privileged observer and witness of the sophisticated and elegant world of the post-war years, covering most of the events that marked the social life of this era. His discretion and modesty undoubtedly explain his neglect, and this work finally corrects a real injustice towards a photographer who was as inspired as Cecil Beaton, Robert Doisneau, or Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The book focuses on the various personalities that Ostier photographed and presents us with a gallery of portraits including: Salvador Dali, Léonor Fini, Jean Cocteau, Louise de Vilmorin, but also socialites celebrated by the press such as the Windsors, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Arturo Lopez or Elsa Maxwell. Their lives are punctuated by various celebrations, balls, receptions, dinners, photographed by Ostier who thus brings back to life a vanished society. Author of two books published by Flammarion: Café Society and Les Scrapbooks du baron de Cabrol, Thierry Coudert evokes with a touch of nostalgia and in a lively way the destiny of this photographer marked since his early youth by the world and the life of Marcel Proust.
Le monde d’André Ostier. Photographe du Tout-Paris
Thierry Coudert
Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo
ISBN: 978-2-35340-412-4
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Number of pages: 208
Over 270 illustrations
RRP: €49.00
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