Vaizey M. The Artist as Photographer

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1982. — 204 p.Picasso declared that every photographer wanted to be a painter. But what is certainly true is that many artists - painters, sculptors and others - have been committed photographers. Marina Vaizey traces this special aspect of the interrelationship between art and photography. How, and to what purpose, artists from Thomas Eakins to Andy Warhol, Edgar Degas to Edouard Vuillard, and Constantin Brancusi to Henry Moore, have taken their own photographs, or have had first-hand experience of photography in their involvement with the camera.Artists have used their own photographs for documentation, as source material, as drawings, for visual research, in their own right in parallel to other visual mediums, and even extensively for family albums. Finally, with the international avant-garde of today, the photograph has become a primary medium.