Arnold Newman: One Hundred
”When taking portraits, Arnold Newman was less interested in the details of his subject’s surroundings than with the symbols he could create with them.”
—Rena Silverman, The New York Times
Co-published with Howard Greenberg Gallery
Photography by Arnold Newman
Introduction by Gregory Heisler
Hardcover
10 x 12 inches
224 pages / 100 images
ISBN: 9781942185529
ARNOLD NEWMAN (1918–2006) is widely renowned for pioneering and popularizing the environmental portrait. With his method of portraiture, he placed his sitters in surroundings representative of their professions, aiming to capture the essence of an individual’s life and work.
Though this approach is commonplace today, his technique was highly unconventional in the early 1940s when he began shooting his subjects. His environmental approach to portraiture was influenced by symbolism, and was defined by the imperative of captivating the viewer no matter how well known the subject was.
Newman captured the likeness of a vast range of figures, from artists to scientists and actors to presidents. The book interweaves the portraits with a selection of Newman’s earlier abstractions and still lifes and thus illuminates the photographer’s development and creative process.