This book presents a selection of over 100 images by Austrian photographer Lisette Model, who is known primarily as an influential teacher to notable 20th-century photographers. Her own work as a pioneering and irreverent street photographer reveals a unique and grotesque vision of humanity – the close-up shots, the use of flash and the exasperated contrasts all accentuate the imperfections of the bodies. This is the first Italian-language volume to be published on the artist.There is no interaction between Model and her subjects, who tend to be caught suddenly, while they eat, sing or gesticulate awkwardly, transformed by her shots into the characters of an irreverent human comedy. ISBN 9788836648320. Silvana Editoriale . hb. 128 pages. 105 duotone. 22.9 x 28 cm. .available
