Exposition
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1999331834
ISBN-13
9781999331832
Publisher
Les Fugitives
Imprint
Les Fugitives
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 2019
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
166 grams
Dimensions
12.00 x 18.00 x 0.90 cms
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The Countess of Castiglione was considered the most beautiful woman in the world in the late-19th century, and she became the most photographed woman of her time. A fascination with her life led the writer Nathalie Leger to weave together this imaginative biography of a woman who was over-exposed but never really understood in her own era.
Everything can be exhibited: trinkets from the Second French Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her extravagance and her pitiful end. Everything can be exposed: a woman for another woman... , the fear of one''s own body, a way of entering a scene, the thrill of seduction, abandonment, the reassurance of objects, a ruin. Over the course of four decades, the Countess Virginia Oldoini Castiglione returned to the same Paris studio to be photographed, posing in different tableaux to mark the moments of her life, real and imagined. Examining the myths around icons past and present, Leger meditates on the half-truths of portrait photography, reframing her own family history in the process.
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