#paul outerbridge

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earlier and later Paul Outerbridge

Top: Saltine Box, 1922

Bottom: Girl with Fan, 1936

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/58368

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1935/paul-outerbridge-american-1896-1958/

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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE - "Woman with Claws", ca. 1937

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Paul Outerbridge - Woman with a snake - (1938)

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Paul Outerbridge - Nude Standing at Dressing Table, 1936, from Color Photography by Gabriel Bauret (2001)

[psikonauti]

Paul Outerbridge (American, 1896-1958)

Red-haired Woman in Green Holding Cigarette, 1941

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Paul Outerbridge. Woman with fan, c. 1936.

[cosechadehuellas]

Paul Outerbridge

William Current and His First Wife

Gelatin silver print, 1950

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paul outerbridge jr. in images from the world between: the circus in 20th century american art - donna gustafson (2001)

[tumbling-dyce]

Paul Outerbridge, Self-Portrait, Santa Monica, California, ca. 1955

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Roe Ethridge, Myla with Column, 2008, color photograph, 55 x 42".

In Roe Ethridge’s photograph Oysters, 2008, six gleaming bivalves are arranged on a crisp bed of sea salt that has been poured onto a sturdy white plate resting on a rustic wooden table. The composition is bathed in sunlight. Initially seductive, on second glance one discovers this is not a great photograph: The shadows are a bit harsh, the angle is awkward, and the framing is skewed. In no time at all, the viewer no longer really desires these oysters. Similarly, in Myla with Column, 2008, what at first glance seems to be a classical nude turns out to be just odd. Not Vice-magazine odd, but still too knowing to be earnest and too well crafted to be amateur. The shadows are harsh again, the neo-geo ’80s backdrop—complete with Roman column—comes off as neither ironic nor funny, and the lighting and color palette are reminiscent of ’40s pinups. This is an aesthetic pioneered by Paul Outerbridge, one of Ethridge’s primary influences, who presciently opted for color photography in the ’30s and fused (as Ethridge does) a commercial and fine-art aesthetic until his increasingly fetishistic nudes got him into trouble. Ethridge dials up Outerbridge’s stylistic oddities; in this exhibition, single images are more complex than those in his previous series, and they rely less on adjacent works for meaning. Each photograph leads viewers through a gamut of reactions. Because seduction isn’t his only aim, Ethridge’s images, which are not so many things they are frequently made out to be (Lynchian, or banal, or mere documentation of an artist’s decadent lifestyle), seduce.

More: Andrew Kreps /Art forum

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Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958)

American Photographer

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Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, ca. 1921 - by Paul Outerbridge (1896 - 1958), American

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Paul Outerbridge

[psikonauti]

Paul Outerbridge (American,1896-1958)

Girl in bathing Suit, 1936

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Paul Outerbridge. No title (Standing female nude with green backdrop), c. 1935.

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Paul Outerbridge (American, 1896-1958)

Women by Car, Laguna Beach, California

c. 1950