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- On Holiday with Greta Garbo
Martin Munkacsi, “Greta Garbo” on vacation, ca. 1932, Courtesy Ullstein Bild
© Joan MunkacsiExhibition Martin Munkacsi: Think While You Shoot
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 12 May to 16 September 07
151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets) San Francisco, CA 94103, +1 415 357 4000
Exhibition page on www.sfmoma.orgPosterity may have forgotten Hungarian artist Martin Munkacsi, but he was a pioneer of modern photography and an inspiration for Richard Avedon and Henri Cartier-Bresson. His work for Harpers's Bazaar, where he was hired in 1934, brought fashion photography into the modern era. His models were more than just mannequins, as he took them out of the studios to capture them in movement, swimming, running or driving fast cars. His pictures are the emblem for a new lifestyle.
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