| Names: | Other: Alexey Brodovich
Other: Alexey Cheslavovich Brodovitch
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| | Dates: | 1898 - 1971, 15 April | | Born: | Russian Empire, Ogolitchi nr. St. Petersburg (new Belarus) | | Died: | France, Le Thor | | Active: | US |
Russian-born art director, typographic designer, teacher and photographer who moved to the USA in 1930. He was an immensely influential designer and was the artistic editor for ‘Harper‘s Bazaar‘ - a position that he held for twenty five years. This position allowed him to encourage and hire many influential photographers including Man Ray, Herbert Bayer and Henri Cartier-Bresson.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Pioneer of 20th century graphic design and highly influential art director of Harper’s Bazaar (1934–1958), who devised a new compositional structure for the printed page that envisioned layouts as single rectangles that spread over two pages. He experimented with type, illustrations, white space, bleed photographs, and montage to expand and control the visual pacing of time. As a designer, teacher, and employer, Brodovitch affected the photographic styles of Lisette Model, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), Hiro, and Robert Frank. Influenced business people who saw his trendsetting ideas in Harper’s Bazaar and imitated them.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
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