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“We knew very little about these photographs – the circumstances, how many there were, who took them, you name it – until Billy Klüver set for himself this project of trying to figure it all out. He did a forensic investigation of the photographs and discovered that they were taken by Jean Cocteau of his friends Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani et cetera. It’s a true detective story about photography.” Read more...
The best books on Photography and Reality
Errol Morris, Film Director
Our most recommended books
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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
by Michael Camille -
Vision and Art
by Margaret Livingstone -
The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
by Michael Baxandall
