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A Day with Picasso,Used
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In 1978, while collecting documentary photographs of the artists' community in Montparnasse from the first decades of the century, Billy Klver discovered that some previously unassociated photographs fell into significant groupings. One group in particular, showing Picasso, Max Jacob, Mose Kisling, Modigliani, and others at the Caf de la Rotonde and on Boulevard du Montparnasse, all seemed to have been taken on the same day. The people were wearing the same clothes in each shot and had the same accessories. Their ties were knotted the same way and their collars had the same wrinkles. A total of twentyfour photographsfour rolls of film with six photographs eachwere eventually found. With the challenge of identifying the date, photographer, and circumstances, Klver embarked on an inquiry that would illuminate the minute texture of that time and place.Biographical research into the subjects' lives led Klver to focus on the summer of 1916 as the likely time the photos were taken. He then measured buildings and plotted angles and lengths of shadows in the photographs to narrow the time frame to a spread of three weeks. Further investigation eventually allowed Klver to identify the photographer as Jean Cocteau and to determine the day that Cocteau had taken the photographs: August 12, 1916. A computer printout of the sun's positions on that date, obtained from the Bureau des Longitudes, together with the length of the shadows, enabled Klver to calculate the time of day of each photograph, and thus to put them in proper sequence.In a tour de force of art historical research, Klver then reconstructed a scenario of the events of the four hours depicted in the photographs. With evocative attention to detailnoting when Picasso is no longer carrying an envelope or Max Jacob has acquired a decoration in his lapelKlver recreates a single afternoon in the lives of Picasso and friends, a group of remarkable people in early twentiethcentury Paris.Besides the central 'portfolio' of photographs by Cocteau, the book contains additional photographs and drawings, short biographies of all the subjects, and a historical section on the events and activities in the Paris art world at the time.
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